Word: abm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ABM temple at Grand Forks. N. Dak. [Aug. 7], is but another paranoiac Defense Department expenditure to certify America's superiority over Moscow...
ALTHOUGH no device of war has caused more debate in recent years than the anti-ballistic missile system, few Americans have any notion of what it looks like. Nor are they likely to. Thanks to the SALT agreement signed with the Soviet Union, only two ABM sites would be constructed in the U.S.: one near Washington, D.C., to protect the nation's decision-making center; and the other near the remote town of Grand Forks, N. Dak., to defend the retaliatory might of 150 Minuteman ICBMs targeted at the Soviet Union and China. Only the site in North Dakota...
...below zero-have provided natives with the saying: "We have three seasons here-July, August and winter." Finally, at Lakota, you turn right off Route 2 and head north on Route 1 toward Nekoma, once a town of "84 old people" and now the headquarters of the only U.S. ABM site. Suddenly it looms above the featureless landscape like some huge, misplaced Mayan temple, a 21st century monster squatting on the 19th century rural countryside of northeast North Dakota...
...controversy has largely skirted the ABM treaty, under which the U.S. and the Soviet Union have agreed to deploy only token missile defenses at just two locations in each country, with 100 missiles and launchers at each site. To be sure, congressional doves were disappointed that ABM systems were not outlawed altogether; reflecting that disappointment, the Senate Armed Services Committee last week did not grant an Administration request for authorization of a second U.S. ABM complex near Washington, D.C. Besides avoiding a horrendously costly new turn in the arms race, the ABM treaty is cheered by defense experts...
...Only the ABM treaty requires formal ratification by a two-thirds vote of the Senate. The missile freeze, technically an executive agreement between Nixon and Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, is already in force although Nixon has asked for majority approval of both houses...