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[[File:B-52s chopped.jpg|thumb|right|[[B-52 Stratofortress|B-52G Stratofortresses]] chopped into five pieces at [[Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center|AMARC]]]]

Three hundred sixty-five B-52s were flown to the [[Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center]] at [[Davis-Monthan Air Force Base]] in Arizona.{{When|date=April 2014}} The bombers were stripped of all usable parts, then chopped into five pieces by a 13,000-pound steel blade dropped from a crane. The [[guillotine]] sliced four times on each plane, severing the wings and leaving the fuselage in three pieces. The ruined B-52s remained in place for three months so that Russian satellites could confirm that the bombers had been destroyed, after which they were sold for scrap.<ref>[http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/experience/the.bomb/route/06.amarc/ CNN. Special: COLD WAR. "Uncle Sam's salvage yard: A Cold War icon heads for the scrap heap" By Andy Walton, CNN Interactive] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080323112510/http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/experience/the.bomb/route/06.amarc/ |datedata=23 March 2008 }}</ref>

It remains in effect between the U.S. and Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine. The latter three became non-nuclear weapons states under the Treaty on the non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons of 1 July 1968 (NPT) as they committed to do under the [[Lisbon Protocol]] (Protocol to the Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms) after becoming independent nations in the wake of the breakup of the Soviet Union.<ref>Lisbon Protocol, signed by the five START Parties 23 May 1992.</ref><ref>[https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos CIA Fact Book]</ref>

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