ANSWERS: ABM TREATY WILL BE RENEGOTIATED WHEN USA OFFERS MISSILE DEFENSE COOPERATION

SHARING MISSILE DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY WITH RUSSIA WILL HELP THEM COOPERATE

Linda Seebach DENVER ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS September 12, 1999, Pg. 2B HEADLINE: U.S. NEEDS MISSILE DEFENSE BEFORE ROGUE STATES ATTACK // ln-10/99-acs

Perhaps the Russians' irrational fears could be dispelled with another Reagan-era suggestion - if we succeed in deploying a missile defense, give it to them. Why not, if it's true that the threat to us lies elsewhere?

RUSSIANS WILL RENEGOTIATE IF WE HELP THEM DEVELOP MISSILE DEFENSES OF THEIR OWN

Sam Nunn, a former US senator from Georgia. Brent Scowcroft, former national security adviser to presidents. Arnold Kanter is a senior fellow at The Forum for International Policy; The Boston Globe, September 13, 1999, Pg. A13 HEADLINE: A deal with Russia on arms control? // ln-10/99-acs

Finally, we need to recognize that even if all of these problems can be solved, a combination of politics and pride probably will preclude Russian agreement unless they can deploy missile defenses of their own. Bilateral cooperation will be key, and cooperation to enhance Russia's early warning system, which would directly serve US interests by strengthening strategic stability, is the place to start. But offers of technology cooperation, even if they transition from the rhetorical to the real, will not be sufficient because Russian missile deployments will take money they do not have.

MISSILE DEFENSE COOPERATION ARRANGEMENTS WITH RUSSIA ARE AVAILABLE

One possibility, provided it made good technical sense, would be to buy Russian rocket motors to power our own missile defense interceptors. Another might be to fashion a program of cooperation to make our respective theater missile defense systems interoperable so that they could be made available for sale to third countries which face their own missile and weapons of mass destruction threats.

TECHNOLOGY SHARING WILL ALLOW ABM TREATY TO BE RENEGOTIATED

Andrea Stone February 7, 2000, USA TODAY SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 11A HEADLINE: Idea: Share shield technology with Russia // ACS-LN-02-10-00

The official said an offer to share some missile technology with the Russians might help break the current impasse over the ABM treaty. He said it could help reassure Russia that the defense system, which would be capable of destroying no more than 100 missiles when fully deployed, was not designed with it in mind.

"It would be one way to get them to agree to modify the ABM treaty," said Lawrence Korb, a Pentagon official during President Reagan's first term who is now at the Council on Foreign Relations, a foreign policy forum.

"It's a good idea. It could help get the Russians on board."

MISSILE DEFENSE INCENTIVES CAN BE USED TO INCREASE RUSSIAN COOPERATION

Jonathan S. Landay, Staff writer, The Christian Science Monitor, September 15, 1999, Pg. 2 HEADLINE: US prods Russia on missile defense // ln-10/99-acs

Bruce Blair, an expert at the Brookings Institution in Washington, believes the US is considering even "more innovative and imaginative" incentives to Moscow. These may include a Russian role in designing and producing NMD technologies and the eventual extension to Russia of the US defense system, he says.