Word: abm
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...Gore and Bush, both support a national missile defense system; the intensity of resolve, however, is different. Gore is not necessarily prepared to step over Russian objections and violate the ABM treaty in order to implement missile defense, while Bush is reportedly willing to take whatever steps necessary in order to deploy the system. It?s not clear which position will win public support; Americans reportedly are in favor of missile defense, but almost no one seems interested in exacerbating strains between the U.S. and Russia...
Clinton may play a waiting game on missile defense. He might choose to start clearing ground for one of the first phases of NMD, a radar station on Shemya, on the westernmost tip of Alaska. But he might hold off actual construction, technically avoiding a breach of the ABM treaty while keeping the U.S. on a timetable to build NMD before any "states of concern" are projected to have long-range missiles. Senate majority leader Trent Lott has indicated that he wouldn't mind seeing the NMD decision put off until the next Administration. For now, it seems, the question...
...There has been a lot of talk recently about "ABM." To what does it refer...
...left America wide open to all manner of future imagined nuclear missile threats - the President has to give the go-ahead this fall to start work on the site next spring. That timetable, though, is based on a legal interpretation that the proposed work is in violation of the ABM treaty. By that reading, if the Russians won't green-light the system, Washington would have to alert Moscow in the fall in order to comply with the requirement that either side give six months' notice of a decision to pull out of the treaty. The Russians have refused...
...instead of being forced to make a tough choice ahead of the presidential election, Clinton is being offered new wiggle room by his lawyers. After all, if clearing the site and pouring the concrete can be deemed to be within the bounds of the ABM treaty, then the White House can at once quiet Republican criticism by showing that it is building a missile defense system and insist to Moscow that it isn't violating the treaty. But though slick lawyering may give Clinton the opportunity to punt the issue of whether to scrap the ABM treaty into the next...