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Brent Scowcroft, Bush's National Security Adviser, has been pushing for nearly a decade for a new kind of nuclear arsenal -- small forces of mobile, single-warhead missiles that would replace those with multiple warheads, which he regards as more destabilizing because they invite a pre-emptive strike. Scowcroft sketched this vision eight years ago as chairman of President Reagan's Commission on Strategic Forces, and he is now seeing it become reality. Said one Administration official of Bush's announcement: "This is the unwritten appendix to the Scowcroft commission...
...from the Oval Office on Friday evening, the President was proposing nothing less than a new set of guidelines for nuclear peace in the post-cold war world. He was, for once, ahead of the curve, demonstrating real leadership in his capacity as Commander in Chief of the doomsday arsenal...
Harvard did play well defensively in the first half, containing Northeastern's arsenal of Debra Sweeney, Shelley Morris and Lisa Samson. Harvard played tenaciously, hustling to cover Northeastern free hits and making some effective short passes...
...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...
...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...