The World - News from April 10, 1987
The latest issue of Jane’s Defense Weekly published a satellite photo that appeared to confirm U.S. assertions that a Soviet radar installation in Siberia violates the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. The photo of the Krasnoyarsk radar installation, which is about 2,300 miles from Moscow, was issued by Sweden’s commercial Space Media Network. The ABM treaty requires that early warning radars be located only on the periphery of the Soviet Union and that anti-ballistic missile radar installations be within 93 miles of Moscow.
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