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Treatys End

Bush unilaterally junks the ABM accord

By Jeffrey St. Clair

It may be no accident that the Bush administration timed the release of the Osama bin Laden videotape on December 13 to coincide with the announcement later that day to unilaterally junk the once sacrosanct Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty, the first abrogation of an arms control treaty since the end of World War II. Of course, Bush’s desire to withdraw from the… return to article

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