Russian experts and officials have this view because they believe that America made a tacit commitment not to develop an extended strategic missile defense.
"Russia will have the right to opt out of the treaty if qualitative and quantitative parameters of the U.S. strategic missile defense begin to significantly effect the efficiency of Russian strategic nuclear forces, " Mr. Lavrov told the AP.
But even the former head of the Russian Strategic Missile Troops, noting the capabilities of a recent Iranian "space vehicle" launch, predicted that Iran would have "ballistic missiles with a range of 3, 500-4, 000 kilometers or even more, " possibly in the next few years.
At least one strategic ballistic missile submarine will fire from the Barents Sea.
This asymmetry is not crucial at the present level of strategic-missile deployment, since there are enough weapons to punch through these defenses.
"Lockheed Martin has played an ultra-high-tech role in the Silicon Valley story since 1956 when we opened our facility in Sunnyvale, adjacent to Moffett Field, " said Tory Bruno , Lockheed Martin's president of Strategic and Missile Defense Systems.
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"It may be a special, mobile, non-strategic anti-missile force, " Ivashov told a news conference.
We discussed a range of strategic issues, including missile defense, and resolved to continue to work through some of the difficult problems involved there.
They also discussed strategic issues, including missile defense.
It is the only place on earth where, under the anti-ballistic missile treaty, the United States was allowed to test its strategic interceptor missiles, a key component of President Bush's missile-defence programme, sometimes known as Star Wars II.
Hoss is that rare combination of technical expert -- from cyber to missile defense -- and strategic thinker, whether it was updating our nuclear posture or preparing our military for 21st-century missions.
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In recent weeks, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to sharply reduce the amounts requested for the rail-mobile MX and the road-mobile Midgetman missile, for the B-2 "Stealth" bomber and the advanced cruise missile, and for the Strategic Defense Initiative in the FY1990 Defense authorization bill.
In other words, under any foreseeable circumstances, U.S. investment in an effort to mimic Soviet mobile missile programs is unlikely to produce strategic benefits commensurate with the cost in defense resources.
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Arguably, a still more ominous threat is that posed by another strategic development: the burgeoning prospect of significant ballistic missile proliferation in the Third World.
He also understands, as Secretary Rumsfeld noted recently, that an anti-missile system need not be perfect to have strategic value.
Carter and Allison should be in difficulty anyway for substantive reasons: The former has been an inveterate opponent of effective strategic defenses and advocate for the obsolete Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
The United States missile defense systems are not intended to affect the strategic balance with Russia.
To be sure, one of his predecessors nearly 30 years ago and under altogether different strategic circumstances decided to give the Soviet Union a veto over American missile defenses in the form of the ABM Treaty.
"President Obama's reverse course decision will cost the American taxpayer more money and upset our allies, " said Representative Mike Rogers, who chairs the Strategic Forces Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee, which oversees ballistic missile defence.
Should the Bush Administration now enter into a START agreement without taking steps to insure against Soviet cheating on its terms, to correct the adverse effects of the ABM Treaty on the strategic balance and to protect against the prospect of growing third-country ballistic missile threats, the cumulative effect could be to seriously undermine U.S. security.
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The general thrust of the Davis-Hammond approach is to concentrate U.S. missile defense efforts almost entirely within the Army at the service's Strategic Defense Command facility in Huntsville, Alabama.
The danger of emerging ballistic missile threats was underscored by Dr. Larry Gershwin , National Intelligence Officer for Strategic Programs at the Central Intelligence Agency.
For reasons of both history and strategic prudence, the next administration should confer with our allies and Russia about its plans for missile defense, and seriously consider their views.
The comprehensive capability to defend against ballistic missile attack inherent in a space-based SDI is utterly incompatible with the concept of strategic vulnerability to such attack enshrined in that 1972 accord.
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For example, during negotiations covering strategic arms reductions, it became apparent that several senators had doubts about the adequacy of the evolving plan for missile inspections.
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