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...ceiling of the SALT II agreement. The unratified 1979 arms-control treaty allows the U.S. a total of 1,320 strategic nuclear delivery systems. If the number of bombers carrying cruises passes 130, the U.S. is obliged to make a corresponding reduction in another area of its nuclear arsenal. The White House decision to field the bomber and not scrap a missile-carrying Poseidon submarine to keep within SALT II bounds amounted to the first acknowledged violation of a major arms accord by a superpower...
...much during his visit to India last week, terming the deployment of the B-52 a "major mistake" that called into question the "entire logic of the Reykjavik talks." In Moscow the Foreign Ministry warned that the Soviet Union would be forced to beef up its own nuclear arsenal...
Neil Kinnock, opposition leader of the British Parliament, plans to convince tonight's audience at the Institute of Politics (IOP) that total elimination of England's nuclear arsenal and withdrawal of U.S. nuclear forces from great Britain would not threaten the security of Europe...
Schwartz said that the military arsenals of the United States and the Soviet Union serve opposing purposes. "Our nuclear arsenal serves to preserve the freedom of the individual while the purpose of the Soviet arsenal is to annihilate the individual," he said...
...resulting story appeared in London's Sunday Times under the banner headline REVEALED: THE SECRETS OF ISRAEL'S NUCLEAR ARSENAL. The account told how an Israeli research team, starting in 1964 with a 26-megawatt nuclear reactor supplied by France, secretly upgraded it to 150 megawatts, large enough to produce plutonium for ten nuclear bombs a year. In the process, said the article, they turned Israel into the world's sixth largest nuclear power, after the U.S., the Soviet Union, Britain, France and China...