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Strategic defence activities have been pursued by both the superpowers since the late fifties. The effort involved has changed somewhat during the years reaching a relative maximum at the end of the sixties in association with the arms control process which led to the conclusion in 1972 of the ABM treaty. More than anything else, this treaty symbolized the current state of inadequasy concerning strategic defence options using other means than missiles which, in turn, were not found to be relevant to more than a rather limited point defence. Nevertheless, the ABM treaty has come to be considered, and rightfully so, as one of the most specific and valuable pieces of arms control of the past few decades.
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Din, A.M. (1986). Arms Control and Strategic Defence. In: Avenhaus, R., Huber, R.K., Kettelle, J.D. (eds) Modelling and Analysis in Arms Control. NATO ASI Series, vol 26. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82943-7_24
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