Threats to the ABM Treaty

1 Prepared Statement of General Malcolm O'Neill, Director of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, before the Committee on National Security, House of Representatives, US Congress, 9 March, 1995.

2 See Lisbeth Gronlund, George Lewis, Theodore Postol & David Wright, `Highly Capable Theater Ballistic Missile Defenses and the ABM Treaty', Arms Control Today, vol. 24 no. 3, April 1994, pp. 3-8.

3 Letter from Dr. John Foster, Director of Defense Research and Engineering, to Senator William Proxmire, 24 July 1972. Quoted in the Congressional Record - Senate, 8 August 1972, p. 27231.

4 Mathew Bunn, Foundation for the Future (Washington DC: The Arms Control Association, 1990, p. 82.)

5 Development costs are now well over USD 2 billion per year. The US Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates conservatively that deployment costs will exceed 50 billion dollars by the year 2010. See CBO report The Future of Theater Missile Defense (Washington DC: Congressional Budget Office, June 1994.)