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...twitch as guns are lowered simultaneously, with parity maintained throughout. Nothing is easy. Yet State Department spokesman Darby Holladay told TIME that negotiators are making "significant progress" toward a START replacement. There may still be hope for a swift resolution to outstanding problems. (See a graphic of the nuclear world...
...START treaty will probably skirt this issue by leaving both countries with robust nuclear forces - about 1,600 deployed strategic warheads, down from the 2,200 of the previous treaty, which is still more than enough to wipe each other off the map. But in the Strangelovean world of nuclear deterrence, the slightest threat to parity is a cause for major problems. Early on in the START negotiations last summer, Kristensen says, the Russians balked at a provision that would allow the U.S. to inspect the production facilities of its new RS-24 ICBM because they would not be able...
...Middle Eastern strongman - clamping down on the press, concentrating military and economic power in the hands of friends and family and winning elections by suspiciously high margins. Though Saleh's main source of legitimacy is the semblance of unity he has brought to what is one of the world's most fragmented countries, his chief skill has been survival. (See pictures of a jihadist's journey...
...shrub whose young leaves contain a compound with effects similar to those of amphetamines. (The crop accounts for roughly a third of the country's water usage.) Moreover, Yemen's production of oil - which constitutes 90% of its exports - is limited and could end by 2017, according to the World Bank...
...latest kerfuffle in years of bitter clashes between activists and whalers, but it underscores how the annual whaling-activist conflict has escalated as both sides acquire new technology. The Ady Gil, a carbon-fiber ship worth about $1.5 million, has an uncanny resemblance to the Batmobile and holds the world record for circumnavigating the globe in only 61 days. Sea Shepherd was able to purchase the celebrated speedboat, previously called the Earthrace, after Hollywood businessman Ady Gil donated $1 million. Japan accuses its activist crew of shooting dangerous, high-powered lasers at its crews. Sea Shepherd, on the other hand...