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The proposal eventually fell flat when American and European differences over basing strategies and financing could not be reconciled.

The Italian cruiser Giuseppe Garibaldi was actually refitted with four launchers for Polaris missiles.

Despite the successful launching tests, the U. S. never went ahead with the MLF.

Instead the Italian Government set to develop an indigenous missile, called Alfa, with a successful program, officially halted by Italian Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ratification.