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...that is exactly what President Clinton has been intent on doing in Moscow this week. He is deeply enmeshed in arms-control negotiations 1) to revise the treaty that radically restricts America's ability to defend itself from missile attack (the ABM treaty) and 2) to set new numbers for American and Russian offensive missiles (a START III treaty...
...parts of this prospective deal that are not anachronistic are, in fact, detrimental to American security. One of the reasons the development of an effective missile defense has been so slow and costly is that the ABM treaty prevents us from testing the most promising technologies, such as sea-based and space-based weapons. Even today, we cannot test a high-speed interceptor against any incoming missile traveling faster than 5 km per SEC. because the Russians are afraid it might be effective against their ICBMs. This is quite crazy. It means that because of a cold war relic...
Clinton faces tough opposition on two more fronts. This week he flies to Moscow, where President Vladimir Putin stands firmly against amending the abm Treaty, even though he would love to get deeper cuts in strategic missiles. Meanwhile, congressional Republicans threaten to torpedo any arms agreement Clinton might reach...
...failed to persuade Putin to agree to the U.S.'s building a shield against missiles that might some day be fired by "rogue states." Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott said Sunday that "President Putin made absolutely clear to President Clinton that Russia continues to oppose changes to the ABM treaty that the United States has proposed." In order to deploy the proposed missile-defense system, the U.S. would have to either convince Russia to amend the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, which forbids either side from adding to its missile-defense systems, or else back out of the treaty...
...full-blown missile shield designed to neutralize the deterrent value of the Russian missile fleet along with everyone else's. In order to proceed with building the system according to the timetable he set himself, President Clinton would have to make the fateful decision on whether to scrap the ABM treaty at the height of the presidential race. "The Russians, on the other hand, have no reason to rush," says Meier. "They know Clinton only has a few months left and Bush has a good chance of winning. That means that even if they got a palatable deal...