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a defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles
the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks placed limits on the deployment of ABMs
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- The only area in which I would be investing in stocks in the defense sector would be in missile defense, like the antiballistic missile technology out of Raytheon McChrystal's Departure Is No Big Deal
- The White House says the new antiballistic missile systems should cover all of Europe by 2018. U.S. Use of Radar Data Risks a Turkish Backlash
- The Bush administration withdrew from the Antiballistic Missile Treaty with Russia in 2002.
- Russia: Country Outlook While hailing the moment, Mr. Medvedev tempered his praise with a warning that any "qualitative and quantitative increase in [antiballistic missile] capability" could render the treaty inoperative. After Arms Pact, a Push to Ratify
- That proposal, which would have installed antiballistic missiles in Poland and a forward radar system in the Czech Republic, triggered a fierce backlash from Moscow. Turkey in Dilemma Over NATO Shield
- U.S. intelligence agencies have long warned about Iran's growing missile threat and officials say antiballistic missile systems should cover all of Europe by 2018. Turkey to Station U.S. Radar to Counter Iranian Rockets
- In 1972, the Soviet Union deployed a new antiballistic missile: the ABM-1 Galosh. The Time May Be Right for Galoshes to Make a Splash Again
