Russia and the U.S. are pointing fingers at each other while the world watches nervously.
President Donald Trump’s decision to abandon the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia has sparked fear of an arms race and, now, a war of words.
Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, appears at a news conference. The Kremlin on Thursday responded to the Pentagon’s decision to test ground-launched cruise missiles that were banned under the landmark nuclear agreement by accusing Washington of having sought the treaty’s demise. Mikhail Metzel/Tass/Getty Images
“The Western press has often treated the Russian claim that U.S. missile defense installations have an offensive capability as rhetorical obfuscation. But publicly available information makes it clear that the U.S. Aegis-based systems in Eastern Europe, if equipped with cruise missiles, would indeed violate the INF,” reads a February essay in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists by physicist and national security expert Theodore Postol.
The INF Treaty was signed in 1987 and banned all ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with a range of about 300 to 3,500 miles. Many of Washington’s European allies are worried about what the future of Europe will look like if the U.S. and Russia are once against pointing missiles at each other.
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