Withdrawing from the INF Treaty Is One of Trump’s Most Dangerous Moves Yet November 2, 2018
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Martin Fleck, Director of PSR’s Nuclear Weapons Abolition Program | Foreign Policy in Focus
In December 1987, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev signed the landmark Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. On October 21, 2018, President Donald Trump announced at a rally that the United States would formally withdraw from the agreement, claiming that Russia had violated the treaty’s terms.
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