Sentence examples for reducing arsenals from inspiring English sources
President Bush, after meeting Mr. Putin last month in Genoa, ordered his national security team to begin consulting with Russia on missile defenses and reducing arsenals.
But reducing arsenals, he insisted, would be the first step toward giving the United States and a growing body of allies the power to remake the nuclear world.
Two decades after the end of the cold war, all of the nuclear powers have been inexcusably negligent about rethinking nuclear strategies, sharply reducing arsenals and eliminating needlessly risky practices, including some that contributed to this month's collision.
And while he said he favored reducing arsenals below the 3,000 to 3,500 warheads negotiated under the second strategic arms reduction treaty, or Start II, he did not say whether he would go as low as the proposed Start III levels of 2,000 or 2,500.
The Russians hope to have a treaty ready for signing when President Bush meets with President Vladimir V. Putin in Russia later this year that would reduce arsenals to about 2,000 warheads each during the next decade.
To be sure, the mere fact of a U.S. Soviet agreement seemed of psychological value, but only if both sides were genuinely seeking to reduce arsenals and not simply to maneuver diplomatically for a future advantage.
Also yesterday, Diego Forlan scored in the third minute of injury time to give Manchester United a 2-1 victoverover Chelsea, and reduce Arsenal's lead atop the Premier League to 2 points.
Everton's front four, which included early substitute Ross Barkley, purred throughout and at times reduced Arsenal's defenders to a squabbling mess.
In the second half Ljungberg was sent off, as was Keown in stoppage time, to reduce Arsenal to nine men.
Andreas Ogris reduced Arsenal's lead, before Limpar added a sixth, taking the ball on unchallenged and shooting from a narrow angle.
The United States and its only nuclear rival have been reducing their arsenals since the end of the Cold War.
