Given below are two statements:
Statement I: The Anti ballistic Missile treaty in 1972 tried to stop the United States and the Soviet Union from using ballistic missiles as a defensive shield to launch a nuclear attack
Statement II: The Anti ballistic Missile treaty did not allow the United States and Soviet Union to deploy a very limited number of defensive systems
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) - Statement I is true but Statement II is false
The Anti-ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty in 1972 tried to stop the United States and the Soviet Union from using ballistic missiles as a defensive shield to launch a nuclear attack (Statement I).
While it did allow both countries to deploy a very limited number of defensive systems (Correct version of statement II), it stopped them from large-scale production of those systems.