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...spread its missile-defense system to Europe, Moscow has seen it as a ploy designed to emasculate its last remaining claim to superpower status: its nuclear might. In the two decades since the Soviet Union's demise, its slide into international irrelevancy has been slowed only by its nuclear arsenal and the recent rise in oil prices. While superpower tensions have eased considerably since the Cold War, both sides continue to keep hundreds of long-range missiles set on hair-trigger alert...
...spread its missile-defense system to Europe, Moscow has seen it as a ploy designed to emasculate its last remaining claim to superpower status: its nuclear might. In the two decades since the Soviet Union?s demise, its slide into international irrelevancy has only been slowed by its nuclear arsenal-and the recent rise in oil prices, which has enabled Russia to begin to climb out of its post-superpower depression...
...feeling landlocked in the City of Light, get a table at Le Grand Bleu (11 Boulevard de la Bastille), where you can enjoy fresh seafood overlooking the Port de l'Arsenal marina. Or head to Le Bar Ourcq (68 Quai de la Loire), along the Bassin de la Villette, which provides sun worshippers with free lounge chairs and bocce-balls. Now here's hoping the weather holds...
...might not look that way at first. North Korea's 60-page declaration of its nuclear capabilities is probably only mildly helpful. It may contain new information on how much plutonium it has produced for its weapons arsenal, or shed light on other aspects of its program. But unpacking North Korea's lies from any strands of truth is a lifetime's work...
...thought that Republicans might keep control of the Pentagon. But Gates has been neither ideological nor namby-pamby. He has demanded accountability. He fired the Secretary of the Army after the Walter Reed hospital scandal and the Secretary of the Air Force for lax stewardship of the nuclear arsenal. Early on, Gates encouraged the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq; he has been one of the few Bush officials open to negotiations with Iran. He has called for a larger budget for diplomacy - "which makes him far more popular than SecDefs usually are around here," a State Department official told...