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...trends in each side's weapon inventory--for the Soviets' development of heavy, land-based, multiple warhead intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs): for the U.S., reliance on a strategic "triad" of ICBMs, submarine-launched missiles, and intercontinental bombers. Talbott acknowledges the relative danger involved in the Soviet choice of arsenal, which is easily targetable and therefore might predispose them toward a policy of "launch first, ask questions later." And we are told that SALT II left the Soviets with a five-to-two edge in land-based warheads and in "throw-weight," the ability of a rocket to launch a certain...
...absolute mainstays of our defense." In October 1983, under heavy pressure from congressional critics, Reagan incorporated into his proposal parts of an alternative idea, the "double build-down": each side would be required to destroy two or more older nuclear weapons for every new one added to its arsenal. The Soviets objected that the formula by which such reductions would have been calculated was weighted against them...
...Ward's staff member had been farther than Louisiana in 18 months. Even more baffling, the Florida Xanthomonas campestris bacterium is somewhat different from its common cousins: equipped with a vast arsenal of immunities and extra fatty acids, which give it strength, it is a particularly virulent strain...
...King has cultivated abroad an unlikely assortment of friends. Morocco, which sits strategically on the southern bank of the Strait of Gibraltar, is considered by Washington to be a useful ally and a potentially valuable airbase. In return, the U.S. provides Hassan with $140 million in aid and an arsenal of sophisticated arms. Nonetheless, the King remains very much his own master, as evidenced by his recent treaty with Libya, a major U.S. foe. He apparently hopes that the surprise agreement may help revive his stricken economy with infusions of Libyan oil and investment...
...consensus among the British government's top Soviet specialists was that he had fallen from grace primarily because of a longstanding dispute over weaponry. Ogarkov, they said, had strongly argued the case for concentrating Soviet efforts on the development of advanced weapons that could match the American arsenal, while the majority of Soviet commanders still favored building up a huge numerical predominance in arms...