Word: abm
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...however, he will have to withdraw from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, a move that has still not gained overwhelming support among Washington liberals. Many congressional Democrats continue to view the ABM Treaty as a cornerstone of nuclear stability in the modern world. Before the tragedies of Sept. 11, Bush had declared that the U.S. wanted a complete overhaul of the treaty. He stressed that he would unilaterally pull out of the agreement if Russian President Vladimir Putin did not compromise. Upon witnessing the carnage in New York, Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania, it became clear that there...
...Alaskan test bed would violate ABM because it could serve as the operational base for an actual anti-missile system...
Unfortunately, Lowry then explains that “the ABM Treaty bans mobile interceptors, making boost-phase defense —which would be based on ships—illegal. Indeed, even testing boost-phase capabilities is banned...
...Bush administration had hoped to conduct a test in February involving a combination of several radar and defense programs. Again, however, ABM makes such testing illegal. We also cannot test a space-based interceptor against target ballistic missiles. Indeed, the treaty takes quite an extreme stance on this issue. Such space-based testing is banned even if the missile being “intercepted” was indisputably a theater-range missile...
...emergent Navy Theater-Wide program? Would he be able to use our innovations to upgrade Israel’s Arrow missile defense? No, because Article IX prohibits such assistance: “Each Party undertakes not to transfer to other States, and not to deploy outside its national territory, ABM systems or their components limited by this Treaty.” The U.S. wouldn’t even be allowed to transfer “technical descriptions or blueprints of ABM systems and their components” to our allies. The treaty would thereby paralyze opportunities for international cooperation...