gon, their number is to grow many times over. More than 12,000 long-range cruise missiles alone are to be deployed. The President produced a photograph showing a civil airport in a Latin American country, and managed to portray it as a threat to the United States. But he did not produce photographs showing hun­ dreds of runways thousands of miles away from the United States, on which United States aircraft with nuclear weapons on board are stationed ready to take off at any moment. 92 And all this, it turns out, is not enough for the present United States Administration. Trillions of dollars are being sought in order to have still more land-. air-and space-based weapons. It is planned sharply to build up all types of nuclear armaments. The President has also announced large-scale measures to create qualitatively new systems of conventional weapons. Another direction in the arms race is thus opening up. However much they repeat the importune talk that all this is being done in reply to a "Soviet military threat", it should not delude anyone. Everything that the Soviet Union did and does gives no evidence of its seeking military superiority. Treaties and agreements which we concluded and are ready to conclude with the United States are aimed at lowering the level of nuclear confrontation without upsetting parity, i.e. without detriment to the security of both the USSR and the United States. And it ill becomes those who derailed the SALT-II Treaty,17 which clearly set precisely this goal, to try to pose as peacemakers now again. While rejecting our proposals that the Soviet Union and NATO should have in Europe an equal number of missiles and an equal number of aircraft, or that there should be no nuclear weapons there at all, neither medium-range nor tactical ones. they still speak 
**Analysis**
The text appears to be discussing the arms race and military buildup between the United States and the Soviet Union, with a focus on the deployment of nuclear weapons and the rejection of treaties aimed at reducing nuclear confrontation. The text does not mention economic development, natural resources, agriculture, industry, transport, communication, health, education, employment, humanitarian aid, or culture. The discussion is centered around the military and international relations, making science and technology a fitting category.

**Category**
Science and technology