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...Most analysts have been convinced for several years that the country has had on hand all the components necessary to make bombs. Last year Pakistan tested two new ballistic missiles. Leonard S. Spector, senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, estimates that Pakistan's arsenal could contain up to 10 bombs of about the same yield as those the U.S. dropped on Japan...
Tension between India and Pakistan over Kashmir is intense, and with war between them a real possibility, neither is likely to halt its nuclear weapons program. Spector estimates the Indian nuclear arsenal at 40 to 60 bombs. Pakistan sees its weapons as a deterrent to India's nuclear and conventional military superiority...
...prior to the attack. Castro did not envision an outright victory over U.S. forces but a stalemate that would embarrass the superpower and last long enough to allow for a U.N.-mediated cease-fire, presumably with Noriega still in power. As good as his word, Castro dispatched a sizable arsenal to Panama, including an estimated 100,000 assault rifles. What the Cuban leader did not foresee is that Noriega would have so little stomach for a prolonged fight...
Saddam Hussein had threatened on numerous occasions that he would destroy half of Israel with his arsenal of chemical weapons, and worse...
...methods, researchers have swapped their mice for a procedure that they hope will detect a drug's potency not only against leukemia but also in scores of different types of cancer cells. The new effort, which is being employed at the Developmental Therapeutics Program in Frederick, Md., uses an arsenal of automated devices and computers to test potential cancer-fighting drugs on real human cancer cells, grown in laboratories, rather than on mice. This enables scientists to test more than 300 chemicals a week. Many of these drugs had failed in the past when tested on mice, but the researchers...