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Started by John Pike
Mon, 04 Dec 1995 00:00
US-Russian "Agreed Framework" on Theater Missile Defenses [text]
Author: John Pike
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 1995 00:00
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 1995 00:00
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The 4 December 1995 edition of "The Washington Times" includes the text
of the US-Russian "Agreed Framework" covering theater and regional
anti-missile systems, which was reached on 17 November 1995. The article
reporting on this document notes that the original is classified SECRET.
As usual, there is no coverage of this matter in the other major
newspapers. The text follows.
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SECRET
The accord, to be offered today in Geneva talks as a legal statement
amending the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, aims at clarifying
missile defenses permitted under the treaty:
+ Ballistic target missiles, against which theater missile defense [TMD]
systems are tested, will have a maximum range of no more than 3,500
kilometers and a maximum flight velocity of no more than 5 kilometers per
second.
+ All TMD systems with a demonstrated interceptor velocity of 3
kilometers per second or less and tested as above, are compliant with the
ABM Treaty.
+ The sides will implement, on a reciprocal basis, the following
confidence-building measures regarding TMD systems and components to be
agreed upon by the sides:
1 - Advance notification of launches of TMD interceptor missiles
involving a ballistic missile target missile, including a test date
launch window and test location.
2 - Visits for the purpose of observing TMD tests.
3 - The exchange of information on TMD systems, components and programs,
including information regarding: programmatic status and schedules;
descriptions of systems and component characteristics and capabilities;
descriptions of operating concepts for TMD systems, including those being
developed or deployed;and, general descriptions of the numbers of each
type of TMD system being developed or deployed.
4 - Notification of all garrison areas for TMD systems within its
national territory, including homeport locations for naval TMD and
garrison military installations for other TMD.
5 - Annual notification of routine deployment areas for TMD systems,
including areas outside the national territory.
6 - Assurances by each side that it will not deploy TMD systems in
numbers and locations that could pose a realistic threat to the strategic
nuclear force of another side.
7 - Provision by each side of an annual assessment of perceived theater
ballistic missile threats and description of how the scale of its TMD
deployment is consistent with such threats.
8 - Consultation if a side expresses a security concern regarding unusual
military activities of another side regarding its TMD systems, with a
view to resolving any concern related thereto.
SECRET
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--
John Pike
Federation of American Scientists http://www.fas.org/pub/gen/fas/
CyberStrategy Project http://www.fas.org/pub/gen/fas/cp/
Intelligence Reform Project http://www.fas.org/pub/gen/fas/irp/
Military Analysis Network http://www.fas.org/pub/gen/fas/man/
Space Policy Project http://www.fas.org/pub/gen/fas/spp/
Re: US-Russian "Agreed Framework" on Theater Missile Defenses [text]
Author: Allen Thomson
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 1995 00:00
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 1995 00:00
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In article <49v07n$pob@clarknet.clark.net> John Pike <johnpike@fas.org> writes:
>The 4 December 1995 edition of "The Washington Times" includes the text
>of the US-Russian "Agreed Framework" covering theater and regional
>anti-missile systems, which was reached on 17 November 1995.
[snippage]
>
>6 - Assurances by each side that it will not deploy TMD systems in
^^^^
>numbers and locations that could pose a realistic threat to the strategic
>nuclear force of another side.
^^^^^^^
>
>8 - Consultation if a side expresses a security concern regarding unusual
>military activities of another side regarding its TMD systems, with a
^^^^^^^
>view to resolving any concern related thereto.
The use of "each" and "another" rather than "either" and "the other"
seems to indicate that the treaty is being crafted to be multilateral,
rather than bilateral. Is this known to be so?
Re: US-Russian "Agreed Framework" on Theater Missile Defenses [text]
Author: John Pike
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 1995 00:00
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 1995 00:00
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thomsona@netcom.com (Allen Thomson) wrote: >The use of "each" and "another" rather than "either" and "the other" >seems to indicate that the treaty is being crafted to be multilateral, >rather than bilateral. Is this known to be so? Yes. This "agreement" [which is not a *final* agreement but rather just an agreed framework for an agreement] was worked out bilaterally between the US and Russian sides, and now is to be fiddled with in the Standing Consultative Commission of the ABM Treaty, where Ukraine, Byelorus and Kazakhstan are also parties. There is concern among the Star Warriors that the multilateral character of the SCC will preclude further adjustments to the Treaty. -- John Pike Federation of American Scientists http://www.fas.org/pub/gen/fas/ CyberStrategy Project http://www.fas.org/pub/gen/fas/cp/ Intelligence Reform Project http://www.fas.org/pub/gen/fas/irp/ Military Analysis Network http://www.fas.org/pub/gen/fas/man/ Space Policy Project http://www.fas.org/pub/gen/fas/spp/
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