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Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty

  • News Briefs
    Arms Control Today
    June 4, 2010
  • NEWS ANALYSIS: Missile Defense Five Years After the ABM Treaty
    Arms Control Today
    June 2, 2007

    Five years after President George W. Bush orchestrated the June 13, 2002, U.S. withdrawal from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty to build an “effective” missile defense, the system remains unproven or insufficient in the eyes of many. (Continue)
  • Sea-Based Missile Defense System Misses Target
    Arms Control Today
    July 1, 2003

    A sea-based theater missile defense system scheduled for deployment within the next two years suffered its first failure in four intercept tries June 18. The Pentagon is now trying to figure out what went wrong. (Continue)
  • GAO Faults Missile Defense Satellite Plan
    Arms Control Today
    June 1, 2003

    Despite a recent revamping and name change, a satellite program to aid missile defense missions is still not on the right path, according to a May report by the General Accounting Office (GAO). (Continue)
  • Missile Defense Post-ABM Treaty: No System, No Arms Race
    Arms Control Today
    June 1, 2003

    Last June 13, the United States withdrew from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, eliminating the treaty’s limits on the U.S. ability to develop and deploy nationwide defenses against long-range ballistic missiles and dampening three decades of contentious debate over whether the United States should pursue such defenses. (Continue)
  • U.S. Missile Defense Programs at a Glance
    Arms Control Today
    June 1, 2003

    President George W. Bush announced December 17, 2002, that the United States would field initial elements of a limited national missile defense system by September 2004. (Continue)
  • Missile Defense Post-ABM Treaty: No System, No Arms Race
    Arms Control Today
    June 1, 2003

    Last June 13, the United States withdrew from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, eliminating the treaty’s limits on the U.S. ability to develop and deploy nationwide defenses against long-range ballistic missiles and dampening three decades of contentious debate over whether the United States should pursue such defenses. (Continue)
  • Senate Endorses Nuclear Reductions Treaty; Duma Delays
    Arms Control Today
    April 1, 2003

    The U.S. Senate unanimously approved ratification of the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) March 6, paving the way for U.S. participation in the pact with Russia to slash nuclear arsenals by roughly two-thirds over the next decade. Meanwhile, citing disagreement with the U.S. decision to enter into war with Iraq, the Russian Duma postponed consideration of the treaty March 18. (Continue)
  • No Appeal in ABM Treaty Case
    Arms Control Today
    March 1, 2003

    Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) and 31 other members of the House of Representatives decided in mid-January not to appeal a federal judge’s dismissal of their lawsuit charging that President George W. Bush could not unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty. The U.S. withdrawal from the treaty took effect last year on June 13. (Continue)
  • The 1997 START/ABM Package at a Glance
    Fact Sheets & Briefs
    January 15, 2003

    January 2003