Word: arsenale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President of the union, Gorbachev is still commander in chief of nearly 4 million troops and an arsenal of almost 30,000 nuclear weapons. Yet the central command faces an uncertain future. Last week's interim agreement between the Kremlin and 10 republics raised more questions than it answered about what kind of state will emerge. Even if they accept Moscow as the capital of a loose confederation, the republics are sure to demand a high degree of control over forces on their territory...
...Santa Barbara police department has an awesome new weapon in its arsenal: Blue Persuasion. To encourage contact with the community along State Street, the town's main drag, officers now cruise in a customized police sedan that sports a hip metallic blue paint job, murals, mag wheels and a booming stereo...
...kind of country the West would like the Soviet Union to be. A noncommunist federalist union, similar to the U.S. but dominated by Russia? A collection of separate, unallied states? A loose economic community of independent republics, with separate governments and defense forces but the Soviet nuclear arsenal controlled by a central authority...
...hard-liners' coup is history, but one ominous fact remains: the Soviet nuclear arsenal contains some 27,000 warheads scattered through several republics. Who will now control them? During the three days of Gorbachev's confinement, his so-called football -- the satchel containing launch- authorization codes -- was in the hands of the junta, raising concerns that its leaders might, in desperation, do something rash. And now, with at least the partial breakup of the U.S.S.R. a certainty, fears are growing that some of the seceding republics may insist that the weapons remain on their soil, in effect creating...
...world changes." And the world has indeed evolved in ways the Soviets surely recognize. While Saddam and Bush are at the top of each other's hate list today, Iraq is geographically much closer to the U.S.S.R. than to the U.S. So is China, which has a sizable arsenal, much of it aimed at Soviet targets. So is Pakistan, with its own nuclear ambitions...