Concluding this treaty would be a real achievement for Mr Obama - but it would follow three previous nuclear disarmament deals and it would not visibly alter the balance of power in the world.

签署了这个协议，奥巴马就有了实际的成就——但它排在前三个核装备协议之后，世人无法明显地看到权力的分布到底倾斜了没有。

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The Irish predicament has indicated that the Maastricht Treaty must be revised so that it can deal with both ordinary as well as balance sheet recessions.

爱尔兰的尴尬处境说明必须我们重审马斯特里赫特条约，这样既能用它来应对寻常性质的衰退也能应对资产负债表衰退。

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The two leaders also stressed that the Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems (ABM) signed in 1972 is the cornerstone for international strategic balance and security.

公报说，两国领导人强调，1972年的《限制反弹道导弹防御系统条约》是全球战略稳定和国际安全的基石。

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Should the Bush Administration now enter into a START agreement without taking steps to insure against Soviet cheating on its terms, to correct the adverse effects of the ABM Treaty on the strategic balance and to protect against the prospect of growing third-country ballistic missile threats, the cumulative effect could be to seriously undermine U.S. security.

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It also features strategic arms control objectives which if incorporated into a U.S.-Soviet treaty would result in a more satisfactory strategic balance than that likely to arise under the START treaty currently being pursued.

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Through the device of prohibiting effective defenses against ballistic missiles, the ABM Treaty's drafters hoped to institutionalize the principle of mutual vulnerability, a "balance of terror" in which the peoples of the United States and the Soviet Union are perpetual hostages.

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