1.   In addition, he has promised deep reductions in the American and Russian strategic arsenals.

2.   Other treaties, which include cuts in strategic arsenals, could result in the Bangor force cut from eight to seven subs.

3.   Russia now keeps its strategic arsenal on constant alert and apparently will do so even at Start III levels.

4.   START II, deeply cutting U.S. and Russian strategic arsenals, was ratified by the Senate last January.

5.   The two leaders agreed in November to cut by two-thirds their strategic nuclear offensive arsenals.

6.   The United States and former Soviet republics already have exchanged highly detailed lists of their strategic nuclear arsenal.

7.   With this budget crunch looming, the Pentagon submitted to Congress a highly classified report last April that outlined nine proposals for reducing the strategic arsenal unilaterally.

8.   Ariel Cohen, specialist on Russia at the private Heritage Foundation, suggested Bush focus on further reductions of U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear arsenals.

9.   He hinted at a compromise, saying that the two countries could consider counting both defensive, as well as offensive weapons as part of their strategic arsenals.

10.   He warned that the Communists would try to prevent ratification of the treaty halving the strategic nuclear arsenals of the United States and Russia.