... n B. Rhinelander is senior counsel a t Shaw Pittm an, Washington, D .C ., an d former legal advisor to the U .S. S A L T I delegation that negotiated the A B M Treaty. National Missile Defense and the ABM Treaty N o N eed to W reck the Accord Philip E...

...). Deterrence and the ABM R etreading the O ld C alculus Robert A. Levine What kind of “rationality ” is required governments of Russia and China, and prob­ of the party to be deterred? ably with most of what are called “rogue — Thomas C. Schelling...

... in Central Asia” (XVIII: 1) Cooper, Belinda; “'We Have No Martin Luther King’: Eastern Europe’s Rhinelander, John B., and Philip E. Coyle; “National Missile Defense and Roma Minority” (XVIII:4) the ABM Treaty...

... in the stockpiles of nuclear weapons. And George W. Bush did utter some lofty and most nations are well aware that the abm generally forgotten words about national se­ Treaty also stands in the way of the next curity. Russia “is no longer our enemy,” he likely military push by the United States— declared...

... isolationism.” Articles from convinced multilateralists about the mistaken policies of the Bush administration in withdrawing from the ABM Treaty and its unwillingness to sign the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change or to join the International Criminal Court proliferated. But the American public...

... Putin. Besides fully collaborating on security matters, Mr. Putin waived objections to a direct U.S. military role in formerly Soviet Central Asia. Previous sticking points in Moscow’s relations with the Bush administration— NATO expansion, even the viability of the ABM treaty that President...

... Missile ( a b m ) Treaty. This view is not shared by Putin, who reacted The View from. Smolensk Square calmly to Washington’s unilateral abro­ Igor Ivanov, a career Soviet diplomat whose gation of the ABM Treaty this past June. previous positions...

... withdrawal from the 1972 ABM Treaty, on bringing the Caspian’s reserves to market yet it will not present a major long-term would be a logical step in the right direc­ obstacle to partnership. tion. So would folding discussions of U.S.- Getting past the problems will also be Central Asian...

... in the In this view, war is conceived as a short and breakout from the ABM Treaty and overzeal- sharp engagement, and the purpose of ous measures for homeland security. The American arms is to rout the enemy and quest for absolute security is not only unrea­ then get out. The idea that war is but the sonable...

... “libido the ABM Treaty, the determination to achieve dominando"— the long-forgotten impulse military superiority in perpetuity, large in­ recognized in “human nature realism”— creases in defense spending— underlines just can still get it up after all these years. how unipolar the structure...

... and the So­ Ja n e ’s Strategic Weapon Systems, and various other Ja n e ’s viet Union in 1972 to adopt the ABM Treaty limit­ annuals on specialized weapon systems. I also relied ing such systems, a treaty from which the United on Aviation Week & Space Technology and Ja n e ’s Defense States...

... corresponding and withdrawing from the treaty, but full- concessions from the United States. throated Russian opposition could have made doing so a diplomatic nightmare. In Chechnya and the War on Terrorism the end, the ABM Treaty passed into the his­ It is primarily in Chechnya...

... nonprolifera­ maintained, need not fear the end of the tion fund to purchase and destroy nuclear ABM Treaty or changes in the U.S. posture weapons and nuclear materials from any na­ toward other major arms agreements. It tion of concern, not just Russia. was not as if we needed...

..., 1999- is limited to a willingness to listen to for­ 7. Patrick E. Tyler, “U.S. Sets Deadline for Set­ eign views while holding unswervingly to tlement of ABM Agreement,” New York Times, Au­ fixed positions. gust 22, 2001. Some conservatives applaud this mini­ 8...

..., or to the scrapping of the ABM Treaty. United States abrogated the so-called Platt They note, accurately, that when genocidal Amendment that gave Washington the slaughter broke out in the Balkans, Europe right to veto Cuba’s national legislation. In proved impotent and it took U.S. leadership a gesture...