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The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM Treaty or ABMT) is a Treaty between the United States of America and the Soviet Union on the limitation of the anti-ballistic missile (ABM) systems used in defending areas against missile-delivered nuclear weapons
Ratified by the US Senate
The Threshold Test Ban Treaty (TTBT) , the Treaty limits nuclear test explosion to under 150 kilotons (over ten times the yield of the Hiroshima bomb)
The United States and the Soviet Union agree to the Protocol to the Anti-Ballistic Missile Agreement, which limits ABM deployment to a single area.
The 1974 Protocol reduces the number of sites to one per party, largely because neither country had developed a second site, the sites are Moscow for the USSR and Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota
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