Some yearn for the bygone days of American nuclear superiority; others believe that negotiated reductions are the only way to ease the nuclear threat.

He begins his discussion of deterrence by slashing away at three "myths": total disarmament, total space defense and nuclear superiority.

Administration officials say that despite those verification uncertainties, the treaty would preserve American nuclear superiority and slow the spread of nuclear weapons.

Sputnik obliterated the American assumption of its nuclear superiority.

You suggest that China cannot overcome American nuclear superiority.

When you built Cassandra, in 1961, we had nuclear superiority over the Russians.

They have pursued, in their blindness, the goal of nuclear superiority.

Attaining nuclear superiority over the Russians has been replaced by going for "nuclear sufficiency."

But there is another answer too: even when Americans did not explicitly brandish nuclear superiority, our possession was menace enough.

But the Russians have been concerned that an American antimissile defense will give Washington nuclear superiority, and have strenuously opposed the move.