11.   The Pentagon could be appeased with accounting tricks that cloak the real numbers of warheads in the American arsenal.

12.   The privately financed cooperative effort is being conducted in national laboratories better known for their work on the American nuclear arsenal.

13.   The size of the American nuclear arsenal would no longer depend on the number of warheads Russia possesses, nor be set in lengthy and painstaking arms control negotiations.

14.   Those proposals will take time to develop, and the Europeans are looking for more than cuts in the American arsenal.

15.   Yet this force will almost certainly remain small in comparison to the American nuclear arsenal, even if the Bush administration unilaterally reduces U.S. nuclear forces.

16.   He called it unfair to the men and women of the armed forces not to test to make sure the American nuclear arsenal would work.

17.   Two-thirds of the American nuclear arsenal would be consigned to the scrap heap, a senior U.S. official said Thursday.