Word: arsenale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...points: rewarding North Korea for giving up its nuclear program sets a bad precedent if, say, Iran should some day announce it is building atom bombs. And at any time during the next 10 years or so, the Pyongyang regime could break the agreement and resume building a nuclear arsenal. Clinton noted that North Korea would then lose all future benefits in oil and reactor-building money. A more conclusive defense: since the U.S. discovered it could not get international support for economic sanctions against Pyongyang, there have been only two real alternatives to something like the current agreement...
Left unchecked, Pyongyang would surely expand its bomb-grade plutonium stocks and its arsenal of nukes, which may already include one or two atomic devices. That could spawn a regional arms race and, worse still, a proliferation nightmare. "The real threat, if the North is allowed to get more nuclear-weapons material, would be their selling it, not using it," says Representative Gary Ackerman, who chairs the House Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific. "Their economy is virtually nonexistent. They'll do anything for money, which is why they're the largest exporter of Scud missiles. If they...
...hour psychiatric exam. But the U.S. magistrate handling the case didn't release a letter found in Duran's truck that prosecutors say raises questions about his sanity. (Unofficially, they've said, it's a will.) Also in the truck, parked near the White House: a shotgun, an arsenal of ammunition, a gun magazine, a machete, sleeping bags and a stuffed animal. The 26-year-old Colorado man, who'll face another hearing Wednesday to determine whether he's competent to stand trial, disappeared Sept. 30. Federal investigators say he telephoned his wife once, saying he was never coming back...
...players in the American Cold War machine is no less relevant today. The "failure of the human element," as the president so delicately puts it, does not create the bomb crisis of Strangelove. It is the dreaded "Doomsday Machine," irrevocably set to detonate Russia's entire atomic arsenal at even the slightest nuclear strike and destroy every organism on the planet, which ups the stakes of the Cold War. This is the ultimate Bigtoy in the race for deterrence...
...Administration took Saddam's threats seriously from the start. A congressional investigation last year found that Iraq had rebuilt most of its conventional Gulf War arsenal, including 200 munitions factories, and that much of its war machine -- some 2,500 tanks, 1,800 artillery pieces and 300 combat planes -- had survived Desert Storm. Two weeks ago, when Saddam dispatched 20,000 of his elite Republican Guard south to join 50,000 regular army troops on the Kuwaiti border, Pentagon officials did not share the view of many diplomats that it was all part of a bluff to pressure...