In 2001 the White House wisely abrogated the crippling Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty--an agreement made with the former Soviet Union that severely restricted the development, testing and deployment of effective missile defense systems.

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Russia was alarmed when the US withdrew from another Cold War agreement - the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty - in 2001.

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To assure the Russians that this initiative would only modify, not imperil, the U.S.-Soviet Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty signed in 1972, however, the Administration intends to reaffirm in a new agreement the earlier accord's bans on sea-, air-, mobile ground- and space-based missile defenses of the territory of the United States.

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