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n. - A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.

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  • In America, and in Europe, too, ABM is rapidly establishing itself as the compromise of choice.
  • What possible answer to building military space station – that would be able to contain ABM system being developed by the US now.
  • Paul Fussell one christened this sort of thing the "ABM" - Author's Big Mistake.
  • Lots of people around the island are operating in what one academic termed ABM anyone but Ma mode.
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