Some earnest officers insist that should the latter happen, America can always withdraw from the treaty.
The Russians have said they will withdraw from the treaty if we improve the quantity or quality of our very limited anti-missile capabilities.
Russia has said that if the U.S. were to withdraw from the ABM treaty, Moscow would feel compelled to abandon agreements that limit numbers of long-range nuclear weapons.
In fact, the U.S. government explicitly declared in 1972 that, if an agreement codifying such cuts were not achieved within five years, the United States would withdraw from the ABM Treaty.
U.S. President George W. Bush has said the United States will exercise its right to withdraw from the ABM treaty -- negotiated with the former Soviet Union -- after six months notice, if nothing can be worked out with the Russians.
After all, it will fall to Mr. Bush from here on actually to achieve that which he has promised to do and that which he has made possible by exercising America's right to withdraw from the ABM Treaty -- namely, actually putting a missile defense in place.
Iran would probably withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, under which its uranium is watched by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
It follows America's decision in June to withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which it had signed in 1972 with the Soviet Union.
Doing so, they argue, would in turn prompt Russia to refuse to ratify the START II Treaty and to withdraw from the earlier START I accord.
It is useful to recall that in the run-up to his decision to exercise America's right to withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty -- a right conferred by the Treaty itself -- President Bush faced heated domestic and international criticism.
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In the latest of a string of setbacks for Colin Powell's multilateralist approach, the secretary of state's attempts to keep negotiations going with Moscow over missile defence was abruptly brought to an end last week with the announcement that the United States would withdraw from the anti ballistic missile (ABM) treaty.
The drafters of the ABM treaty said not to worry, we always could withdraw from it by giving Moscow six months notice.
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