THE Bush administration is deliberately planning to destroy the 1972
Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty by building anti-missile facilities in
Alaska, arms control experts claimed last week. They say the Pentagon could test
the feasibility of a missile defence shield without breaking the treaty.
Philip Coyle, who was head of missile defence testing under President Clinton
and is now with the Center for Defense Information in Washington DC, says: “The
ABM treaty is not an obstacle to the proper development and testing of a
national missile defence system.”
In a successful test last weekend, a dummy warhead was launched on a…
