Britain also has nuclear weapons - the main reason that it and France are permanent members of the United Nations Security Council - and both countries have been unwilling to cede their seats to the European Union.
言うね〜記者さんｗ それはそうと前から気になっていたんだけど、「weapon」と「arsenal」の違いって何なのでしょうか？英英辞典には「arsenal」は「a large group of waepons that someone has」って載ってるから規模が大きいものを指すのかなと思っていたのだけど、「nuclear arsenal」だけじゃなくて「nuclear weapon」というもあるから分からないお(´･ω･`) 「兵器庫」っていう意味で使っているわけではないと思うんだけど・・・
he reassured his audience, "but we want all our partners to realize that Russia will use armed force to defend its own and its allies' sovereignty and territorial integrity. It may resort to a pre-emptive nuclear strike in cases specified by its doctrine."
In other words, Russia will need a very broad range of non-strategic nuclear weapons. Such weapons are designed to destroy battlefield-targets, rather than entire cities, and could take the form of medium and shorter-range missiles launched from air, land or sea, as well as artillery ammunition and nuclear demolition charges.引用元：Russian army prepares for nuclear onslaught(RIA Novosti 2008/01/29)
"Compared with 2004-2006, spending on combat training, on the maintenance, operation and scheduled repairs of military hardware increased [in 2007] more than five-fold," Colonel Alexander Vovk quoted SMF commander Nikolai Solovtsov as saying.
Solovtsov earlier said Russia was putting an average of three mobile and three or four fixed-site missile launching systems into operation every year, and that the SMF would double its test launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles after 2009.引用元：Russia boosts spending on Strategic Missile Forces' training(theTrumpet.com 2008/03/17)
Senior officers have called for an altogether new nato pact to be discussed next month at the alliance’s next summit in Bucharest. The manifesto, among other things, calls for key threats to be defined as political fanaticism, religious fundamentalism, international terrorism, organized crime and nuclear proliferation; for the authority to use force without United Nations approval and for the resolve to use pre-emptive nuclear strikes if necessary.
Attacks against individual militants may frighten and anger ordinary Somalis, say some analysts, leading to something of a backlash against the US. Meanwhile, the US government in the area might be focusing on antiterrorism policy at the expense of nation-building efforts.
The US has long kept its eye on Somalia as a possible haven for Al Qaeda, according to an International Crisis Group study of counterterrorism in the area. As early as 1998, when the Clinton administration fired cruise missiles at terrorist training camps in Afghanistan, US officials were concerned that Osama bin Laden might turn to Somalia as his next place of refuge, says the ICG study.This week's missile strike in Somalia was far from a first for the US. It carried out similar attacks at least three times last year.
Though those strikes were not all successful, the general antiterror effort in Somalia is going well, according to US intelligence.引用元：Chaotic Somalia keeps U.S. on terrorism watch(csmonitor 2008/02/03)
BEIJING: Several recent events, from an eagle-eyed spotting of an image on Google Earth to an overt military delivery from Russia, suggest that China is continuing its rapid expansion of a submarine fleet that would be particularly useful in a conflict with the United States over Taiwan, analysts and military officials said.
American and other Western military analysts estimate that China has more than 30 advanced and increasingly stealthy submarines, and dozens of older, obsolete types. By the end of the decade, they say, China will have more submarines than the United States, although it will still lag behind in overall ability.
"I would say that the U.S. feels a strong threat from Chinese submarines," said Andrei Chang, an expert on Chinese and Taiwan military forces and editor of Kanwa Defense Review. "China now has more submarines than Russia, and the speed they are building them is amazing."
The United States Navy developed a range of antisubmarine sensors and weapons in the cold war that are still considered the world's best. But fighting submarines has been less of a military priority since then, experts say.
Several events have shed light on the growth and technological advances in China's fleet.
いくつかの出来事が中国艦隊の拡張と技術的進歩を解明する。
In late 2006, one of China's new Song-class conventional submarines remained undetected as it shadowed the American aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, although the exact details of the encounter remain the subject of continuing debate. It then surfaced well within torpedo range.
To some China experts in the United States military, that was an aggressive signal to Washington that China could challenge the United States Navy in waters around Taiwan. It also showed that Chinese submarine technology had advanced more rapidly than some experts had expected.
"The U.S. had no idea it was there," said Allan Behm, a security analyst in Canberra, Australia, and a former senior Australian Defense Department official. "This is the great capability of very quiet, conventional submarines."
In July, in another sign of technological progress, China displayed photographs and models of its new Shang-class nuclear-powered attack submarine at an exhibition in Beijing. Two submarines of that class are in service, the official People's Daily newspaper reported then.
In October, Hans Kristensen, a nuclear weapons researcher with the Federation of American Scientists, spotted a Google Earth satellite image that appeared to show two of China's Jin-class nuclear powered ballistic missile submarines. Some military analysts were surprised that China had built a second submarine of that class so soon after the first, in 2004.
And to put the improvement of its fleet on a fast track, China has also taken delivery of 12 advanced Kilo-class conventional submarines from Russia, military experts say. Experts say the designs of the newest Chinese submarines show evidence of technical assistance from Russia.
Many foreign security experts, including senior Pentagon analysts, say China's main objective in upgrading its submarine fleet is the ability to delay or deter a United States intervention on behalf of Taiwan. China regards Taiwan as part of its territory and has warned regularly that it would use force to prevent Taiwan from moving toward formal independence.
Stealthy submarines with torpedoes and antiship missiles would pose a direct threat to the deployment of American aircraft carrier battle groups, likely the first line of response to a Taiwan crisis, security experts say.
The Pentagon is monitoring China closely, officials say. "Chinese submarines have very impressive capabilities, and their numbers are increasing," the senior American military commander in Asia, Admiral Timothy Keating, said in Beijing recently.
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＞国際協調主義に基づきクラスタ禁止条約に賛意を示したのは正解です。これで日本が東アジアで軍事緊張を生み出さない穏健平和国家ヴォルフ少佐クラスター爆弾禁止から思ったことクラスターなど無用日本が持ってるクラスターは旧式で、使っても新型の装甲車両には
ほとんど効果が無いと言われるし、小銃弾対応の防弾服が行き渡り得る
正規軍兵士に対する効果も思ったほクラスター無用論者米韓同盟の終焉：アメリカの対中抑止と中国寄りのアジア韓国が事大主義なのは地理的・国力的に仕方ないのかもしれませんね＾＾；
ちなみに韓国が中国を嫌っている以上に中国は韓国を嫌っている、というのもどこかで見かけた気ヴォルフ少佐米韓同盟の終焉：アメリカの対中抑止と中国寄りのアジア米韓の関係はソ連と中国という共産圏の脅威の時代の名残であって、現在アメリカの関心事は圧倒的に中東でしょう。
ただし韓国が中国寄りかといえば、先日の五輪聖火リレ文太イスラエル大規模軍事演習／オバマとイスラエルロビー彼は「イランを攻撃したら辞任する」とも言っていましたね。
＞中東一帯で済めばいいんですがね
第三次世界大戦フラグがｒｙ
そうでなくても世界経済に及ぼす影響はヴォルフ少佐イスラエル大規模軍事演習／オバマとイスラエルロビー確かにイラク戦争の際にもイスラエル・ロビーはいろいろやってましたからねぇ。
某教授の言葉を借りるなら「唯一ではないが重要な要素」であることは間違いないでしょうねhideomi米韓同盟の終焉：アメリカの対中抑止と中国寄りのアジア自分も中国にバンドワゴンするのはちょっと嫌ですね〜ｗ
＞情勢にあわせてのらりくらりとしつつ、その間できるだけひっそりこっそり自国を守れるように防衛に力いれてくヴォルフ少佐米韓同盟の終焉：アメリカの対中抑止と中国寄りのアジア日本は昔からバンドワゴンできた感じですからねぇ・・。
感情的には嫌なんですが、現在の日本の状況を見てるとある意味仕方ないといいますか、ベストではないけれどベタとおりすがり。米韓同盟の終焉：アメリカの対中抑止と中国寄りのアジアアメリカとしては当然それを狙っているでしょうね。
福田は中国にバンドワゴンする気なのかな（笑）ヴォルフ少佐米韓同盟の終焉：アメリカの対中抑止と中国寄りのアジア日本としてはバックパッシングされる可能性が。ひょっとしたら福田氏はそれを見据えて親中的な行動をとっているのかもしれませんね。hideomi