Word: arsenals
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...Israel's June victory? Israel Premier Levi Eshkol raised the question himself last week-and gave his own answer. Russia, he claimed, has replaced 80% of the heavy weapons-warplanes, tanks and artillery-lost by Egypt during the fighting and has almost completely restocked Syria's prewar arsenal. "This influx of weapons has again upset the balance of power in the Middle East," said Eshkol. "It has made our position more precarious-and made it all the more important that the Western powers permit us to buy the weapons we need to defend ourselves...
...austere defense is not designed to protect urban centers but to preserve the land-based U.S. missile arsenal for a devastating retaliatory strike. That arsenal, consisting of 1,000 Minutemen and 54 Titan Us, is more than double Russia's stockpile of 470 land-based missiles. But London's Institute for Strategic Studies reported last week that the Russians are closing the gap; as for the Chinese, the I.S.S. noted that they have begun test-firing a missile with a 400-mile range...
...enemy arsenal consists of some 350 tanks, over 290 artillery pieces, ranging from 130-to 85 -mm. guns and 120-mm. mortars to rockets and self-propelled tank destroyers. Some 30 German panzer tanks, relics of World War II, are planted in fixed positions as antitank weapons, and the enemy has 200 antiaircraft guns...
...farms now have at least one tractor, and some have a dozen or more; back in 1952 there were tractors on only 47% of all U.S. farms. While the tractor remains the mainstay-some 5,000,000 are in use on today's farms-the agricultural arsenal also includes 880,000 grain combines, 775,000 hay balers, 655,000 corn pickers and shelters. Virtually all of the nation's wheat, corn and sugar beets are now harvested by machine. So are most soybeans, oats, cotton...
...immensely expensive anti-ballistic missile system to defend the nation's cities against a possible attack by enemy missiles, the U.S. has relied to date on an offensive system whose devastating retaliatory capabilities would, presumably, deter the enemy from attacking in the first place. The present U.S. arsenal should indeed give any aggressor pause. It consists of the 1,000 Minuteman Is and IIs, 54 Titan IIs and 656 Polaris missiles, as well as 555 B-52 and 80 B58 intercontinental bombers armed to unload nuclear bombs on any enemy in the world-although some...