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any plan, treaty, or agreement to limit the number, size, or type of weapons or armed forces of the participating nations; the measures taken to limit the weapons systems or armed forces

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  • Some arms-control experts suggest a different approach.
  • Bush's arms-control plan is supposed to regulate such transactions.
  • They cut an arms-control deal -- albeit one that will be hard to ratify.
  • But, Lou, arms-control experts are still skeptical of the Pentagon's account.
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