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...still, for most countries, primarily an early-warning system. It must detect preparations for military attacks, the development of threatening nuclear or chemical weapons, or in the case of the former Soviet Union, any illicit movement of nuclear warheads and strategic missiles. In the U.S. that means the intelligence arsenal must include satellites carrying high-resolution cameras and electronic eavesdropping devices. Such systems are extremely expensive. Most of the money in the annual budget, says former CIA chief Gates, "goes to sustaining the infrastructure, especially of the satellites, the worldwide, day-to-day coverage from space...
...victimized self, plus horses, with braids of hair pinned to the canvas) are comically ill done. This is the bottom of the barrel; it also links up with the other main section of the Biennale, known as "Aperto 93" and installed in the old rope factory at the Arsenal...
...President Leonid Kravchuk reached a solution: they will split the fleet down the middle. The fleet's port in Sevastopol, Ukraine, will be shared as well. Russia also agreed officially to guarantee Ukraine's security, a condition Kravchuk has insisted on before giving up his 1,900-warhead nuclear arsenal...
Ukraine, along with the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan and Belarus, stumbled into the nuclear club when the empire crumbled. Although all three have promised to banish the weapons entirely, Ukraine has been wavering on its commitment. A growing number of its leaders regard their atomic arsenal as a bargaining chip to trade for Western aid and security guarantees -- and increasingly as a safeguard against possible Russian aggression that they are loath to relinquish...
Doing nothing about the North Korean bomb is a bad option too. South Korea was well along in the development of nuclear weapons in the 1970s until the U.S. pressured Seoul to cancel its program. It could quickly and easily change course again. A nuclear arsenal in North Korea "could result in the dissemination of nuclear weapons throughout the region," says Christophe Carle, research fellow at the Institut Francais des Relations Internationales in Paris. "I can't imagine Japan and South Korea and Taiwan refraining from doing so short of extraordinary U.S. assurances." An East Asia in which six powers...