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Bush Withdraws US from 1972 Arms Treaty
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Bush Withdraws United States from 1972 Arms-control Treaty
Chicago Tribune

President Bush formally withdrew the United States from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Russia on Thursday, but the White House still faces a legal challenge from Democratic lawmakers who insist that the president acted unconstitutionally.

The demise of the 1972 treaty, the cornerstone of arms-control agreements for three decades, cleared the way for the administration to pursue its missile-defense program. Wasting little time, construction was scheduled to begin Saturday on the first six underground silos designated to house several interceptors for the anti-missile shield.

"With the treaty now behind us, our task is to develop and deploy effective defenses against limited missile attacks," Bush said. "As the events of September 11 made clear, we no longer live in the Cold War world for which the ABM Treaty was designed.

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