6 Questions About An Arms Control Treaty On The Rocks
Signed by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty eliminated an entire class of nuclear weapons. President Trump says he intends to withdraw.
Christmas shopping was in full tilt the day Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev sat down at the White House alongside Ronald Reagan to sign what seemed a harbinger of the end of the Cold War: the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
"Trust, but verify," intoned the American president to his Soviet counterpart.
That trust proffered in a season of giving is now collapsing.
"We're the ones that have stayed in the agreement and we've honored the agreement," President Trump told reporters in Nevada
