Another analysis by retired intelligence officer William Lee makes clear moreover, that -- even if the Treaty were still in effect -- the fact that first the USSR and subsequently Russia deployed and maintained a prohibited territorial defense against ballistic missile attack would offer grounds to declare the Treaty nullandvoid.
One need not agree with all of this book's musings or interpretations -- particularly the notion of nullification, whereby a group of like-minded people can declare a law nullandvoid for them -- to appreciate its plea for a greater sensitivity on the part of our political establishment to those with unconventional beliefs.