Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty

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The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, also known as the ABM Treaty, was an arms control treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union on the limitation of the anti-ballistic missile systems used in defending areas against ballistic missile-delivered nuclear weapons. It was intended to reduce pressures to build more nuclear weapons to maintain deterrence.[1]

Under the terms of the ABM Treaty, each party was limited to two ABM complexes, each of which was to be limited to 100 anti-ballistic missiles. 

Signed in 1972, the ABM Treaty was in force for the next 30 years.[2] In 1997, five years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, four former Soviet republics agreed with the United States to succeed the USSR's role in the treaty, with Russia assuming all rights and obligations as the successor state of the Soviet Union. Citing purported risks of nuclear blackmail, the United States unilaterally withdrew from the ABM Treaty in June 2002, leading to its termination.[3]


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References

  1. ↑ "Nuclear weapons and international behavior"
  2. ↑ "Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems"
  3. ↑ "The U.S. Exit From the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty Has Fueled a New Arms Race"
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