V2.Launchers cannot have multiple launch or rapid reload capabilities VIa. Each Party may propose amendments to this Treaty. Bush looses interest. Clinton Administration decides that negotiation of reinterpretation of the ABM Treaty is required. U.S. not willing to accept Russian condition.
Talks go into stalemate.
Republicans take over Congress. Propose deployment of a national missile defense by 2003. The concept of mutual assured destruction, which was one of the major philosophical rationales for the ABM Treaty is now questionable as a basis for stability in a multipolar world in which the United States and the states of the former Soviet Union are seeking to normalize relations and eliminate Cold War attitudes and arrangements. Theater and national missile defenses can contribute to the maintenance of stability as missile threats proliferate and as the United States and former Soviet Union significantly reduce the number of strategic nuclear forces in their respective inventories. Key Policy declarations.