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...live with. But building missiles is a lot cheaper than building anti-missile systems, so the response to an opponent's defense system is to simply build more missiles than it could eliminate - hence the Russian warning that if the U.S. breaks the ABM treaty, all other agreements are null and void. Russian skepticism of U.S. motives in a post-Cold War world, which peaked during the Kosovo crisis, has also left Moscow unconvinced by Washington's argument that its new system will involve too few interceptors to impair Russia's nuclear deterrent. They fear that if the system ever...