Arms Control in Outer Space: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on International Security and Scientific Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, November 10, 1983, April 10, May 2, and July 26, 1984, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1984 - 480 pages |
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ABM components ABM systems ABM Treaty ABRAHAMSON activities ADELMAN Administration administration's American Anti-Ballistic Missile anti-satellite weapons arms control arms control agreements arms race Article ASAT arms control ASAT capability ASAT program ASAT system ASAT testing ASAT's attack ballistic missile defense beam billion Chairman FASCELL chemical lasers Committee Congress Defensive Technologies deploy destroy deterrence early warning effective effort energy ground-based HYDE ICBM infrared intercept interceptor missiles issue laser weapon launch launchers limited ment military moratorium national security national technical means negotiations nuclear weapons offensive operational orbit outer space Outer Space Treaty Pentagon PMALS potential President President's problems prohibited proposed protect question Reagan reentry vehicles rocket RORSAT scientists SDI program sensors side silos SLBM Soviet ASAT Soviet Union space arms control space cooperation space weapons space-based Star Wars Strategic Defense Initiative subcommittee talks target threat tion tracking United verification warheads X-ray laser
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Page 164 - this treaty if it decides that extraordinary events related to the subject matter of this treaty have jeopardized its supreme interests. It shall give notice of its decisions
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