Antiballistic Missile Treaty

American  

noun

1. an agreement between the U.S. and U.S.S.R., signed May 26, 1972, limiting the number of ABM deployment areas, launchers, and interceptors.

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Example Sentences

Shultz announced last week that he and Shevardnadze had at least agreed on the "concept" that the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty should continue to be observed, for a period of years yet to be determined.

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The only way to break the deadlock in START, he feels, is an agreement spelling out which SDI experiments would be allowed under the Antiballistic Missile Treaty of 1972.

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Putin will be ready to banter on everything from the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty to Bush's love of baseball.

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Just this: before Shultz could make that statement, Ronald Reagan had to settle a bitter dispute among his senior advisers.The dustup briefly threatened to scuttle the Antiballistic Missile Treaty of 1972.

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She then proposed that Washington and Moscow agree to a timetable for SDI research programs and commit themselves to abide by the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, at least for a time.

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