Word: arsenale
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...current emergency in the gulf came about because there is now a vacuum of deterrence. Israel's unacknowledged but undisputed nuclear arsenal makes it the only Middle Eastern country within range of Iraq's ballistic missiles that has felt relatively safe. But Jerusalem is not about to offer -- and no Arab state would ever accept -- an Israeli nuclear umbrella over anyone else's head. As for Iran, even if it emerges from its medieval isolation, it will take a long time to regain enough strength to make Saddam think twice before he sends forth his tanks and bombers again...
Backed by his chemical-weapons arsenal and million-man army, Iraq's Saddam Hussein has become increasingly belligerent. But the Arab world was taken by surprise last week when Saddam rattled his saber at fellow OPEC members Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. He accused the two countries of "stabbing Iraq in the back with a poisoned dagger" by conspiring with the U.S. to glut the world oil market. By some estimates, lower oil prices caused by overproduction have cost Iraq, whose debt is as much as $70 billion, some $14 billion in lost revenue. Iraq also charged Kuwait with...
...more than a third of the current U.S. arsenal of 12,000 warheads made it through the Soviet defenses, the nuclear punch would pulverize every Soviet city with a population of more than 25,000. Yet to satisfy Pentagon requirements for obliterating the Soviets' military and industrial capabilities, U.S. negotiators in the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks have rejected Soviet proposals for drastic cuts in each side's arsenal of warheads...
Fans may register astonishment; Ryan does not. Awe is not in the arsenal of a man who has been doing so well for so long. He is an uncomplicated genius with sensible priorities. In 1988, when the gentleman farmer from Alvin, Texas, became a free agent, he spurned heftier offers in order to play with a team near his home and family. His second family is the Ranger teammates, who mobbed him after the no-hitter. Because some of them were barely in Pampers when Ryan first pitched for the Mets in 1966, the scene also suggested a Father...
...this might not be so alarming were it not for Saddam's apparent determination to transform Iraq into a regional superpower with a nuclear capability. Baghdad's vast arsenal of sophisticated weaponry is at the disposal of a 1 million-strong battle-hardened military, by far the largest of any Arab state. Given Israel's formidable military strength, Saddam's buildup amounts to a Middle East version of mutual assured destruction, the same kind of nerve-racking standoff that governed East-West relations throughout the cold...