Rather, as a bilateral, non-dispositive treaty, the ABM Treaty lapsed when the USSR ceased to exist.
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 the ABM treaty was signed in 1972 with the now defunct Soviet Union.
Russia, a vehement critic of American missile-defence plans, says these would violate the ABM treaty.
But that is the kind of very advanced research that is permitted under the ABM Treaty.
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.
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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The ABM Treaty did not become a treaty between the United States and the Russian Federation by devolution.
The ABM Treaty, as you well know, was negotiated almost 30 years ago.
The ABM Treaty was written when Russia and the U.S. were historical rivals.
As the 20 years that followed the ABM Treaty clearly demonstrated, none of this proved to be true at all.
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Hence, the ABM Treaty lapsed by operation of law - that is, automatically - when the USSR dissolved in 1991.
Thus, the 1972 ABM Treaty and the 1974 Vladivostok summit utterly failed to restrict the nuclear arsenals of the two superpowers.
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Indeed, that was a central goal of the ABM Treaty, which the United States and the Soviet Union signed in 1972.
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In May 1998, President Clinton replied that the ABM Treaty is in force between the United States and the Russian Federation.
The drafters of the ABM treaty said not to worry, we always could withdraw from it by giving Moscow six months notice.
Consequently, neither renegotiating or reinterpreting the ABM Treaty are advisable or necessary.
Such a veto would in no small measure be justified on the aforementioned grounds that this legislation impinges upon the START-ABM Treaty linkage.
Under international law and domestic precedent, however, the ABM Treaty had to have lapsed when the other party, the Soviet Union, was liquidated.
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Instead, the impetus seems to stem from a theological attachment to the ABM Treaty, which precludes the United States from obtaining effective territorial defenses.
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The ABM treaty has taught us the folly of promising to ban forever certain weapons or defenses and limit the use of new technologies.
Many Democrats believe pulling out of the ABM treaty unnecessarily antagonizes the Russians, because there is no indication a missile defense system would work.
Mr. Clinton and his senior subordinates contend that this agreement can only be implemented if the U.S. adheres in perpetuity to the ABM Treaty.
In Russia, they thought through the implications of the U.S. withdrawal from the ABM Treaty and helped negotiate the Moscow Treaty, dramatically reducing nuclear warheads.
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The ABM Treaty has severely restricted missile defense research and testing.
The U.S. simply could not acquire, let alone field, an effective anti-missile system for its people and territory within the limits of the ABM Treaty.
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