This should hold us over until we develop a thorough, sophisticated land-based antiballistic missile system.

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He also opened the door a bit to talking about the Antiballistic Missile Treaty.

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President Jacques Chirac of France, for example, took issue with Bush's characterization of the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty as a relic of the Cold War.

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Bush said the antiballistic missile treaty was signed under different conditions, when the Soviet Union and the United States were engaged in a "hostile rivalry" and security came through a nuclear weapons buildup on both sides.

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On the JDS Kongo, one of four Aegis electronic warfare destroyers (two more are under construction) that will be fitted with Japan's first antiballistic missile system, elderly ladies cooled themselves with paper fans bearing the ship's name.

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To the contrary, Moscow has taken great pains to protect those elements of its leadership and workforce deemed necessary to the survival of the Soviet Union through an array of air and civil defenses as well as through permitted and prohibited antiballistic missile devices.

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