On June 14, when the U.S. commitment to the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty ends, the Bush administration will be freer to push allied nations toward greater involvement in the development of missile defense technologies, a senior Pentagon official said this week. However, while the treaty will be gone, the administration's efforts to engage allies in missile defense cooperation will still face sizable hurdles put up by U.S. export control rules, the official pointed out. "We are looking at ways in...
