Some earnest officers insist that should the latter happen, America can always withdraw from the treaty.
The Russians have said they will withdraw from the treaty if we improve the quantity or quality of our very limited anti-missile capabilities.
If China pulls a land grab, Bigelow says, America's only option will be to withdraw from the treaty as well and send its own personnel to the moon to start claiming American territory.
There are many good reasons for the U.S. to exercise its option to withdraw from the ABM Treaty, as Article XV permits.
Yet neither of those presidents chose to withdraw from the ABM Treaty.
And second, it has attempted to foreclose the United States' right to withdraw from the ABM Treaty -- a right expressly provided for by that agreement.
Much to Russia's dismay, President Bush announced in December that the US would unilaterally withdraw from the ABM treaty - a move which came into effect on Thursday.
Russia has said that if the U.S. were to withdraw from the ABM treaty, Moscow would feel compelled to abandon agreements that limit numbers of long-range nuclear weapons.
It will take another President to do what the U.S. ought to have done long before this: Exercise its option to withdraw from the ABM Treaty and get to work.
In fact, the U.S. government explicitly declared in 1972 that, if an agreement codifying such cuts were not achieved within five years, the United States would withdraw from the ABM Treaty.
"Is the announcement of our intent to withdraw from the ABM treaty a real action, or is it a White House Christmas present for the right wing who dislikes arms control under any circumstances, " said Biden.
U.S. President George W. Bush has said the United States will exercise its right to withdraw from the ABM treaty -- negotiated with the former Soviet Union -- after six months notice, if nothing can be worked out with the Russians.
After all, it will fall to Mr. Bush from here on actually to achieve that which he has promised to do and that which he has made possible by exercising Americas right to withdraw from the ABM Treaty namely, actually putting a missile defense in place.
After all, it will fall to Mr. Bush from here on actually to achieve that which he has promised to do and that which he has made possible by exercising America's right to withdraw from the ABM Treaty -- namely, actually putting a missile defense in place.
The Journal editorial echoes a call issued yesterday by the Center for Security Policy for President Bush to ensure that the Joe Bidens of the world are not able to infer, interpret or otherwise impute to the somewhat nebulous understanding reached on Sunday by Mr. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin a U.S. commitment not to withdraw from the ABM Treaty, as Sen.
He did this after Moscow objected, threatening to target the sites and withdraw from the New Start treaty.
The policy was implemented after Moscow objected, threatening to target the sites and withdraw from the New Start treaty.
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The regime was already shifting in that direction before the parliamentary vote, with threats to target U.S. missile defense installations with nuclear weapons, or to withdraw from the START nuclear treaty negotiated by President Obama.
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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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By threatening to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1994, he secured two western-designed nuclear power plants.
Iran would probably withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, under which its uranium is watched by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
It follows America's decision in June to withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which it had signed in 1972 with the Soviet Union.
Doing so, they argue, would in turn prompt Russia to refuse to ratify the START II Treaty and to withdraw from the earlier START I accord.
Or it could be used secretly with more sophisticated machines quickly to turn Iran's legal stockpile of low-enriched uranium into high-enriched uranium for weapons, for example if Iran were to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Tuesday that Russia reserves the right to withdraw from its new arms-control treaty with the U.S. if it decides the planned U.S. missile-defense shield threatens its security, the Associated Press reported.
It is useful to recall that in the run-up to his decision to exercise America's right to withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty -- a right conferred by the Treaty itself -- President Bush faced heated domestic and international criticism.
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The success of this operation underscores the wisdom of President Bush in undertaking to withdraw from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and to begin deployment of in particular sea-based missile defenses.
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Most important of these was his decision to withdraw from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, an action Mr. Weinberger championed with characteristic vision, eloquence and tenacity for the better part of two decades, both in and out of government.
"The fact that the Senate could vote to begin to defend the United States on the very day that a new START Treaty was signed -- and in the face of Moscow's explicit threat to withdraw from that accord should the U.S. deviate from the ABM Treaty is simply extraordinary, " said Frank J.
In the latest of a string of setbacks for Colin Powell's multilateralist approach, the secretary of state's attempts to keep negotiations going with Moscow over missile defence was abruptly brought to an end last week with the announcement that the United States would withdraw from the anti ballistic missile (ABM) treaty.
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