Surviving in a Deregulated Strategic World

... deterrence. For three decades, ballistic missile defenses (BMD) were constrained by the ABM Treaty, which Moscow considered to be a cornerstone of strategic stability. After... ... United States would get through implementing its missile defense programs. Thus, the BMD challenge to deterrence was – and still is being - met by improving the capacity... ... caliber with no ambition to prevail in the world. America’s main challenger now is China, which has surpassed it in terms of GDP in PPP terms and is expected to surpass...