Word: arsenal
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Karpov and his colleagues also hinted at some new flexibility on strategic weapons. Only a month ago they were insisting that no new weapons be added to either nation's strategic arsenal. But now the Soviets have indicated that they might agree to one additional new weapon in each leg of the strategic triad (land-based, seabased and airborne), which would allow the U.S. to proceed with its modernization program...
Wareham, Chimerenga and the five other co-defendants and their spouses hold a total of 10 college and six graduate degrees. They were under surveillance by the FBI for more than a year when agents arrested them in October 1984 and found an arsenal of weapons--including sawed-off shotguns and Uzi machine guns--at several members' houses...
...statement that calls the program "deeply misguided, dangerous and enormously expensive." About half the engineering and physics faculty members at Cornell have signed a similar denunciation of SDI. The professors argue that deployment of a Star Wars system could provoke the Soviet Union to build up its offensive arsenal in an effort to stay ahead of U.S. defensive capabilities...
...strong hint that it would be the ideologue. At his first formal press conference since undergoing surgery for cancer last July, Reagan declared that he would not abandon his cherished Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), better known as Star Wars, in exchange for cuts, however large, in the Soviet nuclear arsenal...
Perhaps, but the hints are nonetheless alluring. During the second round of the Geneva talks last summer, Soviet Negotiator Victor Karpov informally suggested that Moscow might be willing to cut its arsenal of missiles and bombers by as much as 40%, including for the first time nuclear "charges," meaning warheads. In the past, the Soviets had agreed to limit only launchers, which allowed their missiles to be loaded up with multiple warheads. The Soviets also alluded to setting a ceiling on the number of land-based missiles. The U.S. considers these big "silo busters" to be the most destabilizing element...