It is a sensible, incremental treaty that will cut America's and Russia's deployed strategic nuclear warheads by about a third, from the current maximum of 2, 200 to 1, 550, and the number of deployed missiles and bombers to 700 apiece.

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Is America prepared to face the high-end asymmetric strategies being deployed by a Chinese state readying itself at all levels--political, military, and economic--to challenge U.S. predominance?

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This would still be true, they say, even if, as Russia has proposed, a new agreement were to cut the number of warheads deployed by America and Russia to 1, 500 each.

ECONOMIST: A shield in space

Besides the usual panoply of search-and-rescue aircraft deployed by America's Civil Air Patrol, which wound down its search on September 17th, a different sort of search effort is being conducted online, using satellite photographs.

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