The UAE package includes an anti-ballistic missile system called THAAD which is designed to destroy missiles both within and beyond the earth's atmosphere.
Furthermore, the "clarification" will evidently not limit the type of warhead that can be used in the anti-ballistic-missile system.
The U.S. Navy has in its arsenal today, the capability "to pre-empt" China's anti-ship ballistic missile system before it becomes operational.
But Putin was less successful in convincing South Korea that U.S. plans to build a missile defense system violates the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
Russia appears close to agreeing a deal to revise the anti-ballistic missile treaty - lifting its objections to an American system of missile defence.
Mr. Gore, like Mr. Clinton, favors negotiating with the Russians to change the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and make way for the more limited missile defense system.
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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As the Clinton administration approaches its decision this fall on whether to begin deployment of a national missile defense system, the public debate has been heavily influenced by the assumption that the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union is still in effect, and that the United States must "abrogate" it in order to deploy defenses.
But Prime Minister Tony Blair said the system must meet concerns from Europe and China about the maintenance of anti-ballistic missile treaties which have put a brake on the arms race for more than 20 years.
It would require rethinking the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty--which, among other problems, blocks Americans from using a theater-anti-missile system to defend the U.S. homeland. (We can only use it to defend troops abroad.) And a more urgent threat would require Mr. Clinton to spend money on defenses rather than other favored White House causes.
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