
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, April 19, 1991                   TAG: 9104190319
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

U.S. REDUCES NUCLEAR-WAR TARGET LIST

For the first time since the advent of the nuclear age, a large number of targets in the former communist world are being deleted from the U.S. nuclear war plan following a two-year, top-secret Pentagon review, according to U.S. sources.

The reductions - well over 1,000 and perhaps more than 2,000 - represent about 20 percent or more of the total group of about 8,500 Soviet-bloc targets that were to be struck by some 12,000 U.S. nuclear weapons in the event of an all-out war, two knowledgeable sources said. - Los Angeles Times

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