Word: arsenale
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BAGHDAD: U.N. weapons inspectors and the U.S. military suspect that Saddam Hussein's arsenal includes 200 tons of VX nerve gas ? enough, says Defense Secretary William Cohen, to kill "every man, woman and child on the face of the planet." And while that information raises the stakes, Iraq is raising the heat: Its government newspaper al-Jumhouriya said Wednesday, "Iraq will not tolerate any more farces by inspection teams," adding they had become "virtual criminal courts...
Saddam Hussein's unwatched arsenal of poisons and germs can redouble the threat to America, and the terrorists are already among us. That message fairly screamed at Americans last week. In the shadow of the World Trade Center, the target of a bombing in 1993, New York City began the week with a drill involving 600 police, fire fighters and FBI agents responding to a mock attack by terrorists supposedly using deadly VX nerve gas, which Iraq has produced in vast quantities. The following day, in Fairfax, Va., a jury convicted Mir Aimal Kasi, a Pakistani, of assassinating...
...experts have compiled a record of real achievement over the years. They have essentially dismantled Iraq's nuclear- weapons industry and accounted for the great majority of its Scud missiles. They have uncovered vast stocks of chemical agents and have been trying hard to find Saddam's germ-warfare arsenal. But they still have a lot of work to do in all those categories of weapons...
House Speaker Thomas M. Finneran (D-Boston) bitterly fought last night's vote with an arsenal of legislative tactics, but he said he was not entirely discouraged...
...also calls for the construction of national defenses against nuclear attacks when they become cost-effective and reductions in the total number of nuclear weapons in the U.S. arsenal...