Now it is a symbol of strategic stability for Mr. Clinton and his new strategic partners in Moscow and Beijing.
As a priority, we intend to successfully implement the New START Treaty, and to continue our discussions on strategic stability.
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.
This agreement enhances strategic stability and, at the same time, enables us to rise to a higher level for cooperation between Russia and the United States.
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If so, there could be serious implications for strategic stability as the confidence of friends and foes alike in the robustness of our deterrent declines markedly.
For reasons of strategic stability, sound program management, fiscal responsibility, allied relations and procurement reform, the Congress should reject the proposed suspension of Trident II production in FY1990.
"I want to be candid with you: If these talks fail, I'll do what is right for the security of millions of Americans and for global strategic stability, " he said.
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.
"That position is dictated by the best interests of trying to support strategic stability, international and national security and prevent a new arms race, " Sergeyev was quoted by Interfax news agency as saying.
However, DOD also is inviting the Russian military to take part in a Joint Center for Year 2000 Strategic Stability to be located at the North American Aerospace Defense Command headquarters, Peterson Air Force Base, Colo.
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.
"This would simply be the continuation of a ballistic missile early warning partnership we have shared with the U.S. over 30 years, a partnership which makes a significant contribution to global strategic stability, " said a spokeswoman for Foreign Minister Alexander Downer.
Most importantly, he withdrew the United States from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, an archaic Cold War document that some (notably, Senator John Kerry ) foolishly considered to be the "cornerstone of strategic stability" even a decade after the other party - the Soviet Union - had ceased to exist.
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.
In 2001, we see even more clearly the validity of warnings sounded in 1998 by a blue-ribbon, bipartisan commission chaired by Donald Rumsfeld: While the Cold War was characterized by relatively predictable, deterrence-based strategic stability, the danger of devastating attacks via long-range missiles could now emerge at any time and with little warning.
Lead-magnesium-niobate transducers in broadband sonars are likely to make the seas perfectly transparent, eliminating for the first time the presumed invulnerability of submarine-launched ballistic missiles, the anchor of strategic nuclear stability.
"It is not favourable to global strategic balance and stability, " a foreign ministry spokesman in Beijing said following the weekend tests.
This reflects the strategic vision to maintain stability in the Grand Sahara and in the Sahel region and to enhance Maghreb integration.
However, Microsoft is said to be interested, as are a number of other companies, attracted by Malaysia's high growth, low cost, political stability and strategic location.
"The new agreement will mutually enhance the security of the parties and predictability and stability in strategic offensive forces, and will include effective verification measures drawn from the experience of the parties in implementing the START Treaty, " the statement said.
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The Chinese leadership that emerges from 2012 will likely be unwilling or unable to decisively carry out deep structural reforms, obsessively focused on maintaining internal stability, and more aggressive in pursuing the core strategic interests it sees as essential to this stability.
Sooner or later the US will pay a price for the Bush administration's decision to embrace the delusion of stability as its strategic goal.
But America's moral responsibility to the people of Iraq, and its own interest in maintaining stability in this strategic corner of the Middle East, have not disappeared with the departure of Mr Bush.
Among them, lifting people out of poverty, promoting democracy and economic stability worldwide, and bolstering strategic alliances.
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Europe wants Turkey to become more modern, democratic and stable because Turkey has strategic importance as "an anchor of stability and a benchmark of democracy for the wider Muslim world", he says.
In my discussion with the President, we have decided to accelerate the deepening of our ties and to work as equal partners in a strategic relationship that will positively and decisively influence world peace, stability and progress.
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Yet it is widely acknowledged that a strategic realignment with Iran would benefit U.S. and regional security and stability.
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