And it creates a basis for establishing numerical as well as geographic limitations on U.S. TMD capabilities.
And second, it creates a basis for establishing numerical as well as geographic limitations on U.S. TMD capabilities.
The second sentence, however, is an invitation to Russian complaints about future U.S. cooperation with allied governments on TMD programs.
But after talks with Perry, China reiterated its strong opposition to the TMD scheme, especially if it were to cover Taiwan.
According to insiders, Washington may offer a deal whereby it would publicly pledge that Taiwan would not come formally under TMD.
With Tokyo's cooperation, Washington may also push ahead with development of a Theater Missile Defense (TMD) system capable of downing North Korean rockets.
This principle appears to introduce a basis for the Russians to argue that there should be geographic limitations on the deployment of U.S. TMD systems.
According to this logic, since Russia faces a potentially enormous danger of attack from shorter-range ballistic missiles, it would be entitled to an enormous number of TMD systems.
On the other hand, since the U.S. faces no theater missile threats, its TMD capabilities would presumably be limited to overseas deployments and possibly just to those numbers and regions where U.S. forces are still forward-deployed.
On the other hand, since the United States itself faces no theater missile threats, its TMD capabilities would presumably be limited to overseas deployments and possibly just to those numbers and regions where U.S. forces are still forward-deployed.
Since the extent to which a threat is "realistic" is clearly in the eyes of the threatened, it is predictable that Moscow will be claiming that American TMD systems particularly highly capable ones are a threat to individual Russian missiles.
After North Korea launched a rocket over Japan's airspace on Aug. 31--Pyongyang maintains it was merely an attempt to place a satellite in orbit--Tokyo quickly overcame its qualms about helping the U.S. develop an expensive theater missile defense (TMD) system to shoot down ballistic missiles.
If the old Senate already had five more votes than would be needed to block ratification of any new treaty -- or amendment to the existing 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty -- that had the effect of "hindering our advanced TMD programs, " the new Senate will be even more hostile to such an idea.
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