This should hold us over until we develop a thorough, sophisticated land-based antiballistic missile system.
Three years later President Bush eliminated legal barriers by opting out of the antiballistic missile treaty.
He also opened the door a bit to talking about the Antiballistic Missile Treaty.
The Strategic Defense Initiative and antiballistic missiles, with their defensive nature, fit perfectly, he says.
The Antiballistic Missile Treaty (ABM), which rules out sea- and space-based systems, is a Cold War relic.
This way, the Administration can say it is still adhering to the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, which bars deploying nationwide missile defense shields.
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.
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.
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.
Helms, worried that Clinton might agree to Russian demands that the U.S. curb its missile-defense program, has already told the President not to bring back an arms deal, particularly one that keeps the Antiballistic Missile Treaty alive.
But building the system would violate the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, and Moscow has not only refused to negotiate a loophole for Washington, but has warned that violating the treaty will void all subsequent arms control agreements and precipitate a new arms race.
No American, let alone our allies in the Middle East, can help but rejoice that the Reagan administration succeeded in taking the first, tenuous steps away from perpetual U.S. vulnerability by upgrading the Patriot air defense system to give it modest antiballistic missile capabilities.
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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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