US Navy/Sgt. Audrey M. C. Rampton
The Navy s most recent 30-year ship-building plan calls for building 404 new vessels and retiring 304 current ones by 2051.
One of the vessels to be retired is USS Ohio, a ballistic-missile sub that was refitted as the Navy s first cruise-missile submarine.
In December, the US Navy released its 30-year ship-building plan, which called for building 404 new vessels to reach a 541-ship fleet by 2051, with 304 current vessels retired over that period.
Fourteen of the vessels to be retired are nuclear-powered and thus need to be recycled as part of the Navy s Ship-Submarine Recycling Program to ensure safe disposal of their nuclear reactors and fuel.
Secretary of State George Shultz, center, walks with President Reagan and Vice President George Bush on his arrival at the White House in January 1985 after two days of arms talks with the Soviet Union in Geneva. Shultz died Saturday at the age of 100. Barry Thumma/AP
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Secretary of State George Shultz, center, walks with President Reagan and Vice President George Bush on his arrival at the White House in January 1985 after two days of arms talks with the Soviet Union in Geneva. Shultz died Saturday at the age of 100. Barry Thumma/AP
Former Secretary of State George P. Shultz, who served in four different Cabinet-level posts and helped guide America out of the Cold War, died Saturday evening at his home in California. He was 100.
A man of broad experience and talents, Shultz achieved success in statesmanship, business and academia. Lawmakers praised him for opposing as sheer folly the sale of arms to Iran that were the cornerstone of the Iran-Contra scandal that marred Reagan's second term in office.
President Ronald Reagan’s longtime secretary of state, George Shultz, who spent most of the 1980s trying to improve relations with the Soviet Union, has died.