White House officials on Feb. 1 said the United States would begin withdrawal from a landmark 1987 nuclear arms-control pact with Russia, asserting the Russians have violated it for years.
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(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.
