It must be assumed, moreover, that as the Soviets engage in a major upgrade of the ABM system at Moscow they are producing sufficient numbers of interceptors and other equipment to support a larger ABM deployment than allowed by the Treaty.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The Soviet Wyoming Formula On Start Would Kill SDI
Soviet Defensive Developments suggest that the USSR is moving in the direction of a nation-wide deployment of ABM defenses.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The Soviet Wyoming Formula On Start Would Kill SDI
Without the myriad impediments posed by the ABM Treaty to the development and deployment of competent missile defenses, getting them put into place became a relatively straightforward matter of time and technology.
We are in our present, vulnerable position in no small measure precisely because of an unwillingness (or inability) on the part of successive Presidents to end the tyranny of an ABM Treaty regime that precluded the deployment, and thus undercut the urgency of developing, anti- missile systems contemplated under the SDI, GPALS and NMD programs.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Don't Breathe New Life into the A.B.M. Treaty
The Center's analysis concludes that U.S. security will in the future be better served by deployment of SDI than by continued adherence to the ABM Treaty.
Such a reality should lead the United States to accelerate SDI deployment, rather than continue to remain in unilateral ABM Treaty compliance and restricting or delaying the program.
The 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty signed with great fanfare by the two leaders in Moscow prohibited the deployment by either nation of territorial defenses against ballistic missile attack.
And what President Bush is proposing to do end the impediment to the deployment of effective missile defenses posed by the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, signed in 1972 with the Soviet Union, and initiate deployments impermissible under that accord will require him to overcome immense inertia.
And what President Bush is proposing to do end the impediment to the deployment of effective missile defenses posed by the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, signed in 1972 with the Soviet Union, and initiate deployments impermissible under that accord will require him to overcome immense inertia.
Indeed, the fact that one such interceptor, the SH-08, has previously been associated with the mobile ABM-X-3 system heightens concerns about the likelihood of a rapid and widespread deployment.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The Soviet Wyoming Formula On Start Would Kill SDI
President Bush is to be commended in the strongest possible terms for taking the step needed to allow development and deployment of U.S. missile defenses namely, withdrawing from the ABM Treaty.
President Bush is to be commended in the strongest possible terms for taking the step needed to allow development and deployment of U.S. missile defenses -- namely, withdrawing from the ABM Treaty.
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