To assure the Russians that this initiative would onlymodify, 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.
Monsanto famously tried to define its responsibility as solving the problems of agriculture through genetic engineering, only to find that many stakeholders felt it was irresponsible of Monsanto to modify genes.