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A U.S.-Russian Arms Treaty Could Be in Trouble

Sep 28, 2015 | 09:15 GMT

U.S. President Ronald Reagan (R) and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev (L) signing a treaty eliminating U.S. and Soviet intermediate- and short-range nuclear missiles in Washington, D.C. in December 1987.

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Summary

Russia is feeling increasingly limited by the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty as the United States continues to modernize its nuclear arsenal and develop its ballistic missile defenses. The United States also finds the treaty constraining, but neither Moscow nor Washington wants to be the first to withdraw from the pact.

The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is weakening as Washington and Moscow find the pact increasingly constraining....

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