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| ABM Treaty: U.S. Withdrawal Statement |
| 19.02.10 16:51 |
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| The circumstances affecting U.S. national security have changed fundamentally since the signing of the ABM Treaty in 1972. The attacks against the U.S. homeland on September 11 vividly demonstrate that the threats we face today are far different from those of the Cold War. During that era, now fortunately in the past, the United States and the Soviet Union were locked in an implacably hostile relationship. Each side deployed thousands of nuclear weapons pointed at the other. Our ultimate security rested largely on the grim premise that neither side would launch a nuclear attack because doing so would result in a counter-attack ensuring the total destruction of both nations. |
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| Transcript: President Bush Speech on Missile Defense |
| 19.02.10 16:11 |
Memories |
| We even went so far as to codify this relationship in a 1972 ABM Treaty, based on the doctrine that our very survival would best be ensured by leaving both sides completely open and vulnerable to nuclear attack. The threat was real and vivid. The Strategic Air Command had an airborne command post called the Looking Glass, aloft 24 hours a day, ready in case the president ordered our strategic forces to move toward their targets and release their nuclear ordnance." |
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| Joint Statement by the Presidents of the Peoples Republic of China and the Russian Federation on Anti-Missile Defense |
| 19.02.10 16:08 |
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| The Presidents of the Peoples Republic of China and the Russian Federation state as follows: The development of [the] international situation has fully attested to the correctness of the assessments and conclusions China and Russia had arrived at on the missile defense issue in the joint statement entitled China-Russia Relations at the Turn of the Century (issued at their summit on 23 November 1998), the Sino-Russian Press Communique on the Consultations on the Question of the ABM Treaty (14 April 1999) and the Joint China-Russia Statement (issued at their summit on 10 December 1999). |
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