The U.S. Exit From the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty Has Fueled a New Arms Race

Twenty years ago today, then­-president George W. Bush announced that the United States would withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty. This cornerstone of the Cold War arms control regime, signed in 1972, sought to cap the arms race by limiting homeland missile defenses, thus reducing pressures on the superpowers to build more nuclear weapons.

JA, der war es. Der den Neocons alles erlaubte. Weil er NICHTS verstand.

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"Wenn ihr euch fragt, wie es damals passieren konnte:
weil sie damals (...)."
Henryk Broder