1.   Although the U.S. military no longer maintains such weapons, their equivalents remain in the Russian arsenal.

2.   She said she hoped to begin a new round of talks on reducing United States and Russian nuclear arsenals next month on a visit to Moscow.

3.   The proposed U.S. missile defense system is too limited to protect against the entire Russian nuclear arsenal.

4.   U.S. officials question how impervious the Russian arsenal is to thievery, especially through bribery of hard-pressed Russian officials, scientists or soldiers.

5.   According to Le Monde, experts say the ex-Soviet weapons have most likely been added to the existing Russian arsenal.

6.   Although Moscow says the Chechen separatists are helped by Islamic mujahedeen, they say their Russian arsenal comes straight from the source.

7.   At the summit, Putin promised to slash the current Russian long-range arsenal to one-third or less.

8.   But the Defense Ministry said in its statement Wednesday that a steady decline in the military budget already has led to Russian arsenals becoming increasingly obsolete.

9.   He said it would not take much to upgrade the Russian nuclear arsenal and that it would be done by putting multiple warheads on strategic missiles.

10.   Helms also indicated he was in no hurry to move ahead on ratification of the START II agreement calling for reductions in U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals.