1.   By then, the Soviet Union had acquired a robust assured destruction capability, and the superpowers had worked out rules of the road for dealing with each other.

2.   Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is trying to restore his mass destruction weapons capability and Iran is providing unprecedented support for terrorist groups, Sharon said.

3.   Since that war, U.N. inspectors have sought to ensure that Iraq had divested itself of a weapons of mass destruction capability.

4.   His mission is to ensure that Baghdad cannot rebuild its weapons of mass destruction capability.