Sentence examples for warheads below from inspiring English sources

Even if that issue were resolved, the Pentagon has opposed cutting American warheads below 2,000 to 2,500.

Last year, when President Clinton was considering ways to cut nuclear warheads below the Start III proposals, the chiefs publicly warned against it.

WASHINGTON — Gen. James E. Cartwright, the retired vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a former commander of the United States' nuclear forces, is adding his voice to those who are calling for a drastic reduction in the number of nuclear warheads below the levels set by agreements with Russia.

Last Tuesday, even as Mr. Bush made his proposals, those commanders appeared on Capitol Hill and said they would oppose reducing the number of warheads below the 2,000 to 2,500 being negotiated under the third strategic arms reduction treaty, or Start 3.

They say that the UK should step up efforts to promote multilateral nuclear disarmament, and consider further steps to reduce Britain's operational stockpile of nuclear warheads to below 120.

Despite the improved relations between Moscow and Washington and a treaty a year ago to reduce strategic warheads to below 2,000 each, Nunn said each country keeps about 4,000 warheads on alert.

The casualties of the calendar include a presidential decision on how deeply to cut the stockpile of strategic nuclear warheads, even below the levels in the New Start treaty with Russia.

Others noted that the new nuclear-arms accord that Presidents Bush and Vladimir V. Putin signed in May already would reduce each side's stocks to between 1,750 and 2,200 warheads, well below the Start II levels.

Thom Shanker reports that Gen. James E. Cartwright, the retired vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a former commander of American nuclear forces, has come out in defense of a drastic reduction in the number of nuclear warheads, even below the levels set by agreements with Russia.

Getting to below 2,000 warheads will be difficult unless the target requirements are eased by new presidential guidance.

"The Bush team are on a positive trend line for the first time toward moving below 2,000 warheads," said Rose Gottemoeller, a senior Energy Department official from the Clinton administration.