31.   A second myth is that the United States has protection against a nuclear missile attack.

32.   Albright pressed the Russians again to stop what the administration asserts is help to Iran with nuclear missile technology.

33.   But analysts said that India did not yet have the capacity to launch a nuclear missile from a submarine.

34.   But beyond that, this country must take steps to protect itself from a Chinese nuclear missile attack.

35.   But greater than the occasional nuclear missile?

36.   But San Francisco-based Kenetech Corp. is busy turning nuclear missiles into windmills.

37.   But the idea of taking American and Russian nuclear missiles off alert is gaining ground among nuclear weapons experts in both nations.

38.   But the rationale for nuclear missiles during the Cold War was that the balance of weapons assured safety.

39.   China has a much smaller nuclear missile force and fears that its national nuclear deterrent would be nullified by U.S. missile defenses.

40.   China has legitimate concerns that its relatively small nuclear missile force could be blunted by a U.S. shield.