Rather, as a bilateral, non-dispositive treaty, the ABM Treaty lapsed when the USSR ceased to exist.
Now, the Russians really didn't raise much of a fuss when they stopped the ABM Treaty.
The United States must desist from efforts to "reinforce" the ABM Treaty broken by the Soviets.
The Talbott Communique is most noteworthy, however, for the emphasis it places on the ABM Treaty.
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America wants to bin the ABM treaty because it prevents it building a defence against missiles.
The United States acknowledges that the program would require revisions to the ABM treaty.
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But make no mistake about it, I think it's important to move beyond the ABM Treaty.
Breaking out from under the arbitrary and outdated constraints of the ABM Treaty is long overdue.
But the ABM treaty was signed in 1972 with the now defunct Soviet Union.
By withdrawing from the ABM Treaty, Mr. Bush has proven himself a man of his word.
Russia, a vehement critic of American missile-defence plans, says these would violate the ABM treaty.
Feith and Miron establish, the ABM Treaty lapsed when the Soviet Union became extinct in 1991.
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But that is the kind of very advanced research that is permitted under the ABM Treaty.
The Administration is bent on extending the ABM Treaty to include a ban on space-based missile defenses.
Started by the Soviets even before the ABM Treaty took effect, the original defense was pretty rough.
Washington's constricted interpretation of the ABM Treaty has made experimenting and testing of missile defense shields extremely expensive.
Despite numerous intelligence warnings that the Soviets were violating the ABM treaty, the evidence always was too ambiguous.
The American strategic nuclear weapons inventory exceeded 12, 000 in 1991, reflecting a post-ABM Treaty increase of 112 percent.
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Naturally, for the ABM Treaty to be viable let alone strengthened it must be in force.
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Naturally, for the ABM Treaty to be viable -- let alone strengthened -- it must be in force.
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The ABM Treaty did not become a treaty between the United States and the Russian Federation by devolution.
But what Mr. Yeltsin has done is to eviscerate the last, vestigial argument for the ABM Treaty .
These legislators share an ideological commitment to the ABM Treaty and the arms-control house of cards built upon it.
What the administration has not said is at what point the research and development will break the ABM treaty.
Such activity must not lead to violation or circumvention of the ABM Treaty.
The ABM Treaty, as you well know, was negotiated almost 30 years ago.
The solution, Mr. Frost suggests, is to get out of the ABM treaty and deploy a global missile defense.
The ABM Treaty was written when Russia and the U.S. were historical rivals.
Another would be to scuttle Mr. Clinton's misguided ABM treaty revision with Russia.
As the 20 years that followed the ABM Treaty clearly demonstrated, none of this proved to be true at all.
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