1.   Nixon pushed on with the weapons development program.

2.   A clandestine weapons program that was a contravention of the international arms agreement.

3.   American officials have long believed that Iran is trying to acquire nuclear technology for a weapons program.

4.   American intelligence officials say Yugoslavia has a rudimentary chemical weapons program.

5.   Analysts are careful to distinguish between offensive chemical and biological weapons programs, and the actual weapons that flow from them.

6.   And it urged the Pentagon to transform its strategies and weaponry, even canceling weapons programs to make money available for new ones.

7.   And the budget the president released in February foresees the continuation of virtually every weapons program in existence.

8.   And the substantial Iraqi biological weapons programs are a long way from a full accounting.

9.   As companies have pulled out or lost contracts in recent years, near-monopoly situations have arisen in some weapons programs.

10.   As evidence of a weapons link, the Monterey report cites an interview with Gen. Pyotr Burgasov, a former official in the Soviet germ weapons program.