1.   It has dangerously upset the strategic balance by proposing a new national missile defence system.

2.   This not only altered the strategic military balance in favour of the rebels, it also gave them an important psychological boost.

3.   In the last week the strategic balance in the Gulf has changed.

4.   And Russian and Chinese leaders say the system will upset the current strategic balance by forcing them to enlarge and improve their own nuclear weapons forces.

5.   China strongly opposes US missile defense plans, believing, as Russia does, that a missile shield could destabilize the strategic balance.

6.   Diplomats said the Tutsi rebel advances in Zaire had changed the broader strategic balance between Hutu and Tutsi in the region.

7.   How gravely does this change the strategic balance?

8.   Rogov, for example, argued that a small-scale U.S. defense would not dramatically alter the strategic balance if the limitations were carefully defined.

9.   They wonder whether a unilateral decision by the United States to proceed would unhinge the strategic balance that has made arms control possible and nurtured nonproliferation efforts.