Pompeo sets 60-day deadline to keep arms control pact with Russia
WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday the United States will begin withdrawing from a landmark arms control treaty in 60 days unless Russia stops cheating, setting a hard deadline for the first time during a meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels.
Some U.S. allies and critics in Congress have warned that President Donald Trump, who first threatened to abandon the pact in October, would endanger Europe if he tears up the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty,
