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

She wore a giant bug pin after Russians were caught eavesdropping on the State Department, and an arrow-like pin when renegotiating the Antiballistic Missile Treaty.

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Russia began looking at ways to improve the capabilities of its strategic missile force after the United States withdrew from the antiballistic missile treaty in 2002 in order to expand its missile defenses.

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Instead, he said, the explosion was “linked to the development of weapons which we had to begin creating as one of the tit-for-tat measures in the wake of the United States’ withdrawal from the Antiballistic Missile Treaty.”

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The diplomat, Aleksei Karpov, Russia’s envoy to international organizations in Vienna, blamed the United States for setting Russia on the path to developing a new device by withdrawing from an antiballistic missile treaty over 15 years ago.

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The groom is also a grandson of Joseph D. Tydings of Washington, who served as a United States senator from Maryland from 1965 to 1971, and of the late Gerard C. Smith, who also lived in Easton, and was the chief nuclear arms negotiator for the United States in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks that led to the antiballistic missile treaty of 1972.

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