ABMs have had a rather chequered history. Soviet experiments in the 1960s with an ABM system based near Moscow failed, as did American ones, leading to the ABM treaty of 1972, which banned the development of missiles designed to shoot down each other's ICBMs. |
ABMs have had a rather chequered history. Soviet experiments in the 1960s with an ABM system based near Moscow failed, as did American ones, leading to the ABM treaty of 1972, which banned the development of missiles designed to shoot down each other's ICBMs. (In December 2001, the US announced its intention to withdraw from the treaty.) |