On Feb. 2, the Trump administration is expected to suspend its obligations under the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty and formally announce its intention to withdraw from the treaty in six months in response to a long-running dispute over Russian compliance with the treaty.
The INF Treaty is one of the most far-reaching and most successful nuclear arms reduction agreements. It helped bring an end to the Cold War and paved the way for agreements to slash bloated strategic nuclear arsenals and to withdraw thousands of tactical nuclear weapons from forward-deployed areas. The potential collapse of the INF Treaty, combined with the uncertain future of the 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, creates the potential for increasing nuclear competition.
Join executive director Daryl Kimball and policy director Kingston Reif to learn more on the likely impact and consequences of this decision on the U.S.-Russian nuclear arms control relationship and on the nuclear nonproliferation regime.
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