While the armor and weaponry produced in peacetime became increasingly dramatic, it was no less effective.

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Instead, the Senate should recognize that, if we want to promote a new global norm against chemical warfare, it would be no less effective but far more responsible, safer, and certainly cheaper to do so via hortatory United Nations Security Council resolutions rather than by means of fatally flawed arms control agreements.

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On the whole it was a disarming, intelligent and politically effective performance: one expects no less.

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And therein lies what may be the most important fact about the new bomber: if enemies fear they have no effective defenses against it, then they will be less inclined to start a war in the first place.

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