Russia's hold on us is the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty, which essentially prohibits building defensive weapons.
The old-style arms control community will protest the abandonment of the anti-ballistic missile (ABM) treaty and prophesy a new arms race.
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The plan is for the two presidents to pronounce the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty the "cornerstone" of U.S.-Russian relations and strategic stability.
Starting tomorrow, the United States will no longer be a party to or subject to the constraints of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty.
That would mean accepting several other troubling provisions, notably steps aimed at breathing new life into the strategically obsolete, legally defunct 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty.
Some Russians speculate that Putin agreed to the US withdrawal of the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty because Moscow had developed countermeasures, making its MIRVed ICBMs invulnerable.
This paradigm and the communique it has just spawned attach supreme importance to arms control, in general, and the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, in particular.
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This paradigm -- and the communique it has just spawned -- attach supreme importance to arms control, in general, and the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, in particular.
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Chief among these are the agreements on Multilateralization and Demarcation of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, and the Kyoto Protocol to the UN Convention on Climate Change.
Recall our experience with the U.S.-Soviet Anti-Ballistic Missile (abm) Treaty.
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The 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty signed with great fanfare by the two leaders in Moscow prohibited the deployment by either nation of territorial defenses against ballistic missile attack.
The character, capabilities and location of this radar made it as clear-cut a violation of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty as the United States was ever likely to find.
Critics believe the missile shield would spell an end to the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty, and some European leaders agree with Russian warnings that it could start a new arms race.
But many world leaders have criticised Washington's ambition -- including President Vladimir Putin who has warned it would mean ripping up the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM) and risked a new arms race.
Sam Nunn (D-GA): The United States cannot defend its people against even limited ballistic missile threats that might arise from countries like North Korea or Iraq lest it jeopardize the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty.
The affront would only be compounded were Mr. Powell to sign onto another "deal" that would perpetuate the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty but somehow allow the U.S. greater latitude to conduct missile defense tests it prohibits.
Even as one lot of American diplomats shot down the extension of the BWC, others were busy reiterating their country's determination to scrap the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty, a cornerstone of international arms-control for the past 30 years.
Mr. Clinton may believe he has prevailed, therefore, in his assertion that the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty -- which effectively precludes the United States from deploying effective territorial defenses -- is more important than the protection such defenses could afford.
This is the effect of allowing the desire to preserve the obsolete 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty to drive policy and programmatic decisions, rather than a goal of optimizing the coverage, cost-effectiveness or speed with which anti-missile systems can be deployed.
Missile Defense: When Mr. Bush says the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty is "outdated, " "obsolete, " "dangerous" and something we need to "move beyond, " what he means -- according to Mr. Powell -- is that it should be preserved for the foreseeable future.
After all, unless otherwise stated, the presumption will be that the primary impediment to such activity the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty is going to remain in force until such time as a new, substitute arrangement is jointly agreed and promulgated.
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The upshot of those votes was an emphatic rejection of the notion of absolute American vulnerability to ballistic missile attack a parlous state in which the U.S. has remained for nearly twenty years in the wake of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty.
The upshot of those votes was an emphatic rejection of the notion of absolute American vulnerability to ballistic missile attack -- a parlous state in which the U.S. has remained for nearly twenty years in the wake of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty.
And what President Bush is proposing to do end the impediment to the deployment of effective missile defenses posed by the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, signed in 1972 with the Soviet Union, and initiate deployments impermissible under that accord will require him to overcome immense inertia.
And what President Bush is proposing to do end the impediment to the deployment of effective missile defenses posed by the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, signed in 1972 with the Soviet Union, and initiate deployments impermissible under that accord will require him to overcome immense inertia.
To assure the Russians that this initiative would only modify, not imperil, the U.S.-Soviet Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty signed in 1972, however, the Administration intends to reaffirm in a new agreement the earlier accord's bans on sea-, air-, mobile ground- and space-based missile defenses of the territory of the United States.
Republican Senators John Warner (VA), William Cohen (ME), and Richard Lugar (IN) broke ranks with President Bush last week in a letter that criticized him for seeking rapid development of space-based defenses, urged him to pursue a far less competent ground-based alternative and called for continued adherence to the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty.
His book, The ABM Treaty Charade: A Study in Elite Illusion and Delusion, distilled from these materials a stunning conclusion: As a matter of state policy, the USSR never complied with the requirements of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and built and deployed a territorial ABM system explicitly prohibited by that accord.
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In the end, a renegotiation of the ABM Treaty along such lines may do little more than legitimize the massive anti-ballistic missile capabilities inherent in the large numbers of Soviet radars and interceptors ostensibly fielded for early warning and anti-aircraft purposes.
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