The sapling survived until 2019 when Donald Trump, then US president, quit the treaty, citing alleged violations that Russia denied. Security experts assume these missiles, like most Russian systems, will be capable of carrying either conventional or nuclear warheads. "And as a result, every move that the United States or Russia make puts pressure on the adversary to respond in some way, politically or military. Russia might respond, he said, by deploying more strategic missiles that point at the continental United States. All three experts said the chances of Russia and the United States arriving at a breakthrough arms control deal of the kind that Reagan and Gorbachev struck in 1980s were remote.
