Bush Announcement of Intention to Withdraw from ABM Treaty
Speaking in the Rose Garden with Vladimir Putin at his side, President Bush announced that the United States would be giving formal notice to Russia to withdraw from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty made with the Soviet Union.
Today, I have given formal notice to Russia, in accordance with the treaty, that the United States of America is withdrawing from this almost 30 year old treaty. I have concluded the ABM treaty hinders our government’s ability to develop ways to protect our people from future terrorist or rogue state missile attacks. The 1972 ABM treaty was signed by the United States and the Soviet Union at a much different time, in a vastly different world. One of the signatories, the Soviet Union, no longer exists. And neither does the hostility that once led both our countries to keep thousands of nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert, pointed at each other. The grim theory was that neither side would launch a nuclear attack because it knew the other would respond, thereby destroying both.
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Kennedy on U.S. Withdrawal from ABM Treaty
Claremont Institute President Brian Kennedy praises Bush for announcing the withdrawal of the ABM Treaty, but also looks toward the long road ahead.
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