President Donald Trump’s administration is set to withdraw from a Cold War-era arms control agreement with Russia that Moscow has allegedly violated already, according to The Hill.
In 2014, former President Barack Obama’s administration accused Russia of violating the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, which prohibits nuclear and ground-launched missiles that have ranges between 500 and 5,000 kilometers. It was signed by then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union head Mikhail Gorbachev.
“As they get out of the treaty, can they do it in a way that maintains a level of stability in the U.S.-Russia strategic relationship? And secondly, how do they ensure that the alliance is talking with one voice?” said former State Department official Frank Rose.
“It’s not just a bilateral treaty from the United States and Russia. It really goes to the heart of Eurasian security,” added Rose, who was assistant secretary of state for arms control in the Obama administration.
Andrea Thompson, the under secretary of State for arms control and international security, told reporters recently that “the only way you can get the system back into compliance is to destroy the missile. There’s no way to alter it, there’s no way to change it, there’s no way to adjust the fuel cycle, and we’ve laid that out to them repeated times.”
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