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HISTORY Second to conduct tests; 715 in all. Once a major player in arms race, its warhead count is now shrinking ARSENAL 22,500 warheads RANGE...
...last he could make the trick shot, he unveiled it in a pickup game with other lawmakers. Representative Gore studied the arms race with the same intensity, working 10 hours a week for a year before championing a simple solution to the Soviet first-strike threat--the single-warhead Midgetman missile. He crammed his mind with facts about computers and technology, coining the term information superhighway way back in 1979. And so meticulous were Gore's preparations for his 1996 debate with Jack Kemp, the putative heir to Ronald Reagan's Great Communicator throne, that the Vice President demanded...
...anthrax, but American experts think the true amount was three times that. A fatal dose is, says a U.S. Defense official, "smaller than a speck of dust, something you wouldn't even see." In a final step, the Iraqis refrigerated the muddy mixture; it could be loaded into a warhead shortly before launch...
...find and bomb them all," says the source. But where it suspects the weapons of mass destruction are being produced or stored, the Pentagon will try out prototype weapons designed to "defeat nuclear-biological-chemical threats before they can be used," as a 1995 report phrased it. One penetrating warhead burrows through earth and concrete before detonating; an incendiary warhead burns up biological and chemical agents before they can spew poison into the atmosphere...
...military equipment while the inspectors are locked out. "It looks a little bit like, 'the cat's away, the mice will play,'" said the chief U.N. weapons inspector, Richard Butler ? an Australian. And what exactly are the mice playing at? "They could have enough anthrax to fill a warhead in one week," Butler later warned...