MOSCOW — The national security adviser, John R. Bolton, is in Moscow this week to explain to officials President Trump’s decision to pull out of a 1987 arms-control pact.
New York Times: The INF treaty, explained
(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.
