Toward US-Russian strategic defense: Ban the ABM Treaty now
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.
- Research Organization:
- Heritage Foundation, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 621444
- Report Number(s):
- AD-A--339084/6/XAB
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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