Rest in peace Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Agreement! This week the United States announced that it is giving six months notice of withdrawal from the agreement signed in 1987 by United States President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Thus a stalwart of the Cold War’s wind up is about to disappear and according to some analysts, Russia and the United States are about to embark on another arms race. It will not bankrupt the United States but it could put Putin in the same position Soviet leaders were in in the 1980sBut how much does the United States really want the treaty to continue? Would it not also be developing, or already in possession of, the type of warheads that the Intermediate Range nuclear agreement has banned?

Source: National Post February 05, 2019 15:45 UTC