This, we are told, will destroy the ABM treaty, threaten strategic stability, cause Moscow to withdraw from START and other arms control treaties, and lead to a new arms race.
The second agreement addresses the question of "demarcationn" : Where is the technological line to be drawn between so-called "theater" missile defenses that were not supposed to be covered by the ABM Treaty and "strategic" defenses that were?
As a practical matter, the new Soviet posture is designed to make its agreement to and future compliance with a START agreement contingent upon a U.S. commitment never to deploy a strategic defense system prohibited by the ABM Treaty.
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Should the Bush Administration now enter into a START agreement without taking steps to insure against Soviet cheating on its terms, to correct the adverse effects of the ABM Treaty on the strategic balance and to protect against the prospect of growing third-country ballistic missile threats, the cumulative effect could be to seriously undermine U.S. security.
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If, instead of adopting a new "strategic framework" that dispenses with the ABM Treaty altogether, the Bush Administration winds up effectively amending it, the unamended parts will continue to constitute unacceptable impediments to the actual realization of protection against missile attack.
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The trouble with his statement in Lisbon is that, if the ABM Treaty is the "cornerstone of strategic stability" that Bill Clinton and Al Gore insist it remains, such sharing of missile defense technology would be, if not banned outright, then so limited as to negate its value to the recipient nations.
Such ABM-related activities take on even greater strategic significance against the back-drop of a wide array of other Soviet defensive measures.
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Bill Clinton adamantly opposed missile defenses and, not surprisingly, his administration expended most of its related energies trying to make the ABM Treaty which it called "the cornerstone of strategic stability" even more restrictive of American anti-missile technology.
Bill Clinton adamantly opposed missile defenses and, not surprisingly, his administration expended most of its related energies trying to make the ABM Treaty -- which it called "the cornerstone of strategic stability" -- even more restrictive of American anti-missile technology.
The theory is that it would at least permit some strategic defenses to be deployed and would put to rest the notion that the ABM Treaty must remain immutable in perpetuity.
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The American strategic nuclear weapons inventory exceeded 12, 000 in 1991, reflecting a post-ABM Treaty increase of 112 percent.
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Now, in the aftermath of the ministerial discussions in the Tetons, the USSR is demanding that a side agreement be reached that would permit the Soviet Union to abandon the treaty reducing strategic arms should the United States choose to withdraw from or to violate the 1972 ABM Treaty in order to deploy significant defenses.
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An influential member of the Duma said this month that a compromise on the ABM Treaty was possible and would probably include steep cuts in the limits on strategic warheads and an end to the ban on MIRVs, missiles that can hit more than one target.
The plan is for the two presidents to pronounce the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty the "cornerstone" of U.S.-Russian relations and strategic stability.
To be sure, one of his predecessors nearly 30 years ago and under altogether different strategic circumstances decided to give the Soviet Union a veto over American missile defenses in the form of the ABM Treaty.
In its first paper, published in August 1988, the Center for Security Policy warned that the ABM Treaty had not worked out as intended and urged that what was then known as the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) developed and deployed.
To be sure, one of his predecessors nearly 30 years ago and under altogether different strategic circumstances decided to give the Soviet Union a veto over American missile defenses in the form of the ABM Treaty.
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