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Arms Control and the U.S. Russian Relationship IV. THE ABM TREATY AND BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE Background The ABM Treaty was a product of the Cold War, bipolarity, and the state of technology at that time. The United States and Soviet Union had both deployed significant strategic nuclear forces that increasingly came to rely on long-range ballistic missiles. In an attempt to forestall a further ...

H.R.1530 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 (Reported in the House) Subtitle C--Ballistic Missile Defense Act of 1995 SEC. 231. SHORT TITLE. This subtitle may be cited as the `Ballistic Missile Defense Act of 1995'. SEC. 232. BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES. It is the policy of the United States-- (1) to deploy at the earliest practical date highly ...