Word: arsenale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Moscow who could order them launched at will. Now that seems like the good old days. The world gradually came to trust whoever ruled in the Kremlin to exercise caution lest a nuclear war annihilate the Soviet Union along with the rest of the planet. But suppose the arsenal was so split up that no one would even know who might be able to order the detonation of how much of it. It could happen soon, and there are no precedents for dealing with that prospect; never before has a nuclear superpower disintegrated...
...their efforts is the Amoco Procyon, a $1.5 million, 65-ft. luxury vessel, built of space-age materials, that demands one- third the crew of an equivalent-size traditional yacht. The Procyon is currently cruising down the U.S. East Coast in a bid to spark interest in its arsenal of design changes, which add up to the automation of a labor-intensive sport...
...republics are almost surely thinking about more than just the trade-in value of all that lethal hardware in their midst. They may be asking themselves, What's the ultimate status symbol and guarantee of sovereignty in the late 20th century? One tempting, though dangerous answer: a nuclear arsenal of one's very...
...stop it. Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands have told Washington that they want to finish the job by getting rid of the only nukes that would remain: the bombs carried by 1,100 American and 300 NATO aircraft. Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell says the U.S. will keep the arsenal. But privately, senior U.S. officials concede that by the end of next year Europe will probably be a nuclear-free zone...
...land-based tactical weapons were deployed primarily to deter a Soviet- led invasion of Western Europe by offsetting the Warsaw Pact's heavy superiority in troops, tanks and artillery pieces. The need for that U.S. arsenal disappeared with the Warsaw Pact itself. Today the only targets for the weapons are in areas that have become friendly (Poland, Czechoslovakia, what was formerly East Germany). European allies supposedly protected by the weapons -- in particular, West Germans, who are understandably nervous about living amid the world's heaviest concentration of nuclear weapons -- will be delighted to get rid of them...