This deterrence concept of assured vulnerability was formally enshrined in the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
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Moscow has said a move towards a missile defence strategy would violate the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
He also suggested the United States may need to renegotiate the 1972 anti-ballistic missile treaty with Russia.
Much of the concern in Europe is focused on Bush's declaration that the anti-ballistic missile treaty was outdated.
They see the conflict through the prism of the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty and the Kosovo and Afghan wars.
Germany's foreign minister expressed concern over plans to scrap the anti-ballistic missile treaty.
Russia was alarmed when the US withdrew from another Cold War agreement - the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty - in 2001.
In 2001, President Bush withdrew from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty that had effectively given them a veto in such matters.
Biden is "Dr. No" with respect to pursuing development, test and deployment of missile defenses incompatible with the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
He said he expects America to abrogate the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty soon.
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.
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.
"We must move beyond the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, a treaty that was written in a different era, for a different enemy, " he said.
Russia appears close to agreeing a deal to revise the anti-ballistic missile treaty - lifting its objections to an American system of missile defence.
You say that as soon as America starts pouring concrete to construct anti-missile defences this will constitute a violation of the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty.
The Russian Defense Ministry maintains that the U.S. missile shield program would violate the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty signed by Russia and the United States.
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The two men made a joint statement reaffirming the importance of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty between the United States and the old Soviet Union.
He also understands that this cannot be done so long as the United States adheres to the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty which explicitly prohibits such activities.
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.
The Clinton-Gore Administration, however, insists that the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty remains in force and precludes the United States from having any effective defense of its territory and people.
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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.
Democrats charge this would be a violation of the anti-ballistic missile treaty between the U.S. and Russia, which prevents either country from going forward with any national missile defense system.
When Bush announced the United States was pulling out of the anti-ballistic missile treaty, Putin took it in stride -- suddenly ending a quarrel that once threatened to disrupt U.S.-Russian relations.
Putin's refraining from strenuous objections to U.S. withdrawal from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty appears likely to be rewarded with some sort of cooperative role in the American missile defense program.
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty must be ratified by the Senate.
In 1972, the Nixon Administration gave up on the mission, signing an Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Moscow that (with subsequent modifications) limited each side to 100 land-based interceptors at a single site.
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.
We have recognized that the hostility that characterized US and Soviet relations during the Cold War has ended, hostility that was enshrined in the doctrine of mutual assured destruction and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
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The one dearest to the hearts of arms controllers is of course the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, under which the U.S. and the now nonexistent Soviet Union pledged not to build defenses against possible missile attack.
Clinton told Putin that changes would have to be made in the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty before the United States could engage in the next round of nuclear arms reduction talks, known as START III, Talbott said.
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