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Experts bid to keep U.S.-Russia arms pact alive amid rising tensions

Arms control experts urged the Trump administration to reverse plans to withdraw the United States from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia.

Cold War-era Soviet nuclear missile silo in Saryozek, Kazakhstan
Cold War-era Soviet nuclear missile silo in Saryozek, Kazakhstan where the first four SS-12 missiles were destroyed under the U.S.-Soviet INF Treaty (AN/Martin Trolle Mikkelsen)

WASHINGTON (AN) — Arms control experts called on U.S. President Donald Trump to keep the United States in a Cold War-era treaty that has led to the destruction of almost 2,700 missiles and their launchers.

One of the experts' letters to Trump — signed by a bipartisan group of 14 current and former U.S. political and military leaders — urged him to reverse his plans to withdraw the United States from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia.

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