Word: arsenal
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Outside the Pentagon, there is widespread agreement that Russia is indeed striving to surpass the American nuclear arsenal. Declares Foreign Affairs Specialist Zbigniew Brzezinski: "SALT I on the American side was a plateauing in weapons development. Given the secrecy and level of Soviet development, the situation is increasingly less and less stable." Arid in the Kissinger-Schlesinger world view, stability is the key not only to security but diplomacy. But there is disagreement over whether the nuclear statistics have any real meaning. According to M.I.T. Political Scientist George Rathjens, "More hardware at this point is irrelevant [because] modest numbers...
There will be no experimenting in this meet. Undoubtedly Essick has prepared a few surprises for the Tigers, but the Crimson will be going with everything in their arsenal. University records should fall, but that will be only a sidelight to the events themselves. Virtually every race promises to be what is known in sports jargon as a "barnburner." The final score may not be close, but the individual races will...
Both he and Louise were repeatedly arrested on an assortment of gun charges. Still, the growing Thoresen arsenal spread from room to room in their large half-renovated mansion in the Pacific Heights section of San Francisco. When the police and Government agents finally confiscated his 70 tons of weapons in April 1967, a U.S. Attorney remarked: "The guy has so many munitions, I don't know whether the Government should prosecute him or negotiate with...
Suddenly the radar operators leaned forward in amazement. Flocks of giant blips appeared on their screens--blips that could only signify B-52's, the biggest and most awesome weapon in the United States's arsenal. The operators began to calculate coordinates and plot trajectories, and their fears mounted as they did so: the bombers were not heading for the mountainous trails of Laos this time, or for the panhandle villages, or for army camps in the countryside. The operators alerted the air defense crews with special urgency. The B-52's were all heading for Hanoi--the first installment...
...Most Western military analysts expect the Israeli forces to defeat the combined Arab forces. But if Israel should find itself facing extinction, it is widely assumed that it possesses nuclear weapons, which its leaders might risk the wrath of world opinion by employing. Israel is thought to have an arsenal of low-yield bombs in the kiloton range that can be delivered by specially adapted Israeli air force planes...