Is Missile Defence Agreement on the Cards?

... and unlike other nuclear powers, has long possessed effective anti-missile defence penetration aids.” Besides, at the outset, the dissolution of the ABM Treaty had little effect on U.S.–Russia cooperation in this mutually sensitive area. U.S.–Russia–NATO Theater Missile Defence (TMD) exercises continued until 2008 [ 2 ], while the parties never intended to abandon plans to expand cooperation (for instance, on the Data Exchange Center). It was only 16 years later when Moscow said the U.S. withdrawal from the ...