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Bump. The ABM Treaty expired of course when the Soviet Union did, although the fiction has been kept alive due to the NON-Fictional Soviet Arsenal now in Russian National hands. The U.S. ABM Treaty participation was officially on the path for termination however when the U.S. Congress voted 3-to-1 and the Senate 99-0 on the 99 NMD Act. It called for the President, upon determining viability, to go ahead and deploy a National Missile Defense, in the 1999 National Missile Defense Act. And Clinton didn't dare do anything other than sign it, after threatening to veto it, and just pretend it would be forgotten after having done so. He fully intended, in typically brazen bad faith, to never agree NMD was viable, and would sabotage the testing program saying the ABM treaty forbade gearing up to do real tests (which was always false, of course...even under the treaty we were entitled to one ABM missile field with 100 loaded interceptors and a 100 spares). Anyways, the NMD Act of '99 explicitly presumes a withdrawal asap from the ABM Treaty upon viability being conceded by the President.