Toward U.S.-Russian Strategic Defense: Ban the ABM Treaty Now,

Abstract

Boris Yeltsin and George Bush agreed on June 17 to develop and deploy a jointly controlled global protection system against ballistic missile strikes. Three teams of Russian and American experts now are studying the Bush-Yeltsin idea, called the Joint Defense Program (JDP). The drive to develop a U.S.-Russian defense system, however, faces a formidable obstacle-the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, which prohibits not only the deployment of territorial defenses against strategic missiles but the creation of an infrastructure (or 'base') for such a defense. If America and Russia hope to build a common defense against ballistic missiles, they first will have to remove ABM Treaty obstacles to expanded U.S.-Russian cooperation and missile defense.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 12, 1992
Accession Number
ADA339084

Entities

People

  • Alexander Savelyev

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Air Defense
  • Anti-Ballistic Missiles
  • Arms Control
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Cold War
  • Defense Systems
  • Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
  • International Law
  • Negotiations
  • Security
  • Space Based
  • Strategic Weapons
  • Treaties
  • Ussr
  • Warning Systems
  • Weapons

Readers

  • International Relations and Conflict Resolution
  • Missile Defense Systems.
  • Strategic Security Studies