41.   But the Clinton administration is committed to hanging on to a residual nuclear arsenal.

42.   But these plans are important because America continues to rely on its formidable nuclear arsenal to deter potential nuclear, biological, and chemical attack.

43.   But their wise efforts to prevent nations from developing or modernizing nuclear arsenals are today imperiled by partisan squabbling.

44.   Can the U.S. nuclear arsenal be kept reliable by computer modeling and other substitutes for major tests?

45.   Canada has no nuclear arsenal.

46.   Chief among those hurdles are the objections of China, which views the missile defense program as an effort to neutralize its own, small nuclear arsenal.

47.   China was one of the first major countries to stand by Moscow in its opposition, threatening to expand its nuclear arsenal in response to a U.S. NMD system.

48.   Chinese strategists talk of adding futuristic tactical and space weapons to a nuclear arsenal that India cannot hope to match.

49.   China also has threatened to beef-up its nuclear arsenal if the United States goes ahead with an anti-missile shield.

50.   China is trying to create lighter, more powerful warheads for its nuclear arsenal, experts have said.