Every nation in this world possesses some manner of armed forces.

Only a few nations possess such weapons or are suspected of seeking them.

This allowed them to have at their disposal a huge body of knowledge about human behavior and its history, something that no native nations possessed.

The young nation possessed no guard troops and the border area was restless.

More than 20 nations now possess chemical weapons or the capability to produce them.

No other nation possesses, or aspires to, anything like the reach of American armed forces.

Even now, only eight nations definitely possess nuclear weapons.

In the year 1945 the nation of Ethiopias' government possessed a foreign exchange surplus.

Scattered over the wide world, our nation possessed nothing in common except its carefully guarded tradition.

Because of this, total war between any nations possessing nuclear weapons is now seen as virtually unthinkable.