31.   Both nations fear the missile defense system could undermine the deterrent power of their own nuclear arsenals.

32.   Both Putin and Clinton say they hope to reduce their respective nuclear arsenals over time.

33.   A highly classified intelligence report warns it could provoke China to expand its nuclear arsenal tenfold and prompt Russia to add warheads to its ballistic missiles.

34.   Bush plans to lay out proposals for reducing the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

35.   Bush pledged earlier to cut the U.S. nuclear arsenal by about two-thirds.

36.   Bush has said that he intends to scale back the U.S. nuclear arsenal, with or without coordination with Moscow.

37.   Bush digressed to say that deterrence is the purpose of the US nuclear arsenal.

38.   Bush says he still intends to cut the U.S. nuclear arsenal with or without formal agreement with Putin.

39.   But even if these agreements are signed, they would leave a sizable Chinese nuclear arsenal intact.

40.   But Moscow objects to amending the ABM Treaty because it is viewed as a stabilizing force between two giant nuclear arsenals.