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Missile Defense: ABM, R.I.P.(US withdrawal from the antiballistic missile treaty with Russia)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
President Bush's decision to withdraw from the ABM Treaty is a brave and extraordinary thing. It means not just the end of the treaty, but probably the end of the treaty as a political issue. Vladimir Putin said on the day that Bush announced his decision that the withdrawal would not represent a threat to Russian security (ho-hum)-which is only what the U.S. has been telling the Russians for at least ten months. The Russian intransigence on the treaty was not a warning of a new Cold War, as so many in the opinion elite had it, but what the Russians specialize in: a negotiating position. Now that the matter is decided, the U.S. and the Russians can move on to more fruitful areas of cooperation (working to developing a free market in Russia) and more important areas of contention (Moscow's missile and weapons proliferation to rogue states).
But before the ABM Treaty fades away to a fevered corner of Carl Levin's or Joe Biden's brain, it's worth celebrating a signal intellectual and political accomplishment for the Right. The withdrawal from the treaty, coupled with the administration's recent stiffing of a new protocol to the resolutely unverifiable Biological Weapons Convention and the Senate's rejection of the Comprehensive Test Ban ...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire August 19, 1988 700+ words
...WOULD VIOLATE ABM TREATY WASHINGTON, Aug...review of the Antiballistic Missile Treaty. This...consequences. ABM Treaty Review Conference...status of the 1972 Antiballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty. The ABM Treaty...
- 'Renegotiate the ABM Treaty.' (Antiballistic Missile Treaty) (column)
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report Nunn, Sam December 14, 1987 700+ words
"RENEGOTIATE THE ABM TREATY' Nunn, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, is the Senate...concerns the whole debate over the Anti-Ballistic-Missile (ABM) Treaty of 1972. I am deeply troubled by the administration's reinter...
- Bush Team Steps Up Talks In Pursuit of ABM Treaty Deal.(modification to the...
- Newspaper article from: Defense Daily November 1, 2001 700+ words
...reach an agreement with Russia on the ABM Treaty, but it's still too soon to predict...administration's optimism on reaching an ABM Treaty agreement is evidenced by the increased...United States on Nov. 13. And, the ABM Treaty also will be discussed this week in meetings...
- CIS willing to renegotiate ABM treaty Thurmond says; defense budget under...
- Newspaper article from: Defense Daily January 22, 1992 700+ words
...system at a single site -- probably at Grand Forks, N.D.--but is prevented by the 1972 Anti-ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty from putting an anti-missile system in more than one place. Defense Budget Under Attack As Senate Democrats Open Session...
- Weldon, Vitter: ABM Negotiations Would Violate Law.(Curt Weldon, David Vitter,...
- Newspaper article from: Defense Daily Wolfe, Frank April 18, 2000 700+ words
...modify the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty with the Soviet Union will violate the...initiates formal negotiations to amend the ABM Treaty it will be acting in disregard of not...negotiations with Russia to amend the ABM Treaty during the time remaining in the current...
- Ambassador Reports No Agreement Reached on ABM Changes.(James Collins,...
- Newspaper article from: Defense Daily Gildea, Kerry May 1, 2000 700+ words
...NMD) system without a violation of the ABM Treaty and an agreement on any amendments to...Defense Writers Group breakfast. The ABM Treaty issue will be discussed in-depth in...R-N.C.) last week warned any ABM Treaty amendments the White House sent to Capitol...
- The Biden proviso. (using intermediate range nuclear forces treaty to prevent...
- Magazine article from: The Nation Corn, David Morley, Jefferson March 26, 1988 700+ words
...Administration's "broad" interpretation of the ABM treaty. He is being opposed, ironically...year the Administration argued that the ABM treaty--contrary to testimony offered during...effectively prevents a reinterpretation of the ABM treaty. David LEwis of Physicians for Social...
- Biden may attempt to block Senate ABM plan by amending START; previews...
- Newspaper article from: Defense Daily August 13, 1991 700+ words
...defenses) would begin with an initial, ABM Treaty-compliant site, probably at Grand...Union, seeking agreement to modify the ABM treaty to permit a more effective limited defense...patching together, is in keeping with the ABM treaty. "We are setting a goal, an architecture...