The United States on August 2 is set to officially withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. Signed in 1987, the agreement required the US and the Soviet Union to completely eliminate ground-launched missiles ranging from 500 to 5,500 km (300-3,400 miles).
Deutsche Welle: Landmark INF nuclear arms treaty is history. What now?
(FILES) This Dec. 8,1987 photo shows (left to right) former Soviet Ambassador to US Anatoly Dobrynin, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev and Alexander Yakovlev, second-in-command of Mikhaïl Gorbatchev, meet congressional leaders at The White House on the second day of the US-USSR disarmament summit in Washington. Both superpowers leaders, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev put their names to the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty in a first attempt to reverse the nuclear arms race.
