NOTE: As of August 2, this treaty was allowed to expire, raising the possibility of a nuclear arms race with Russia again.
We are moving away from weapons being developed as deterrents, edging ever closer to an arms race.
The United States will officially leave the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) on Friday, marking what some worry will be the resumption of a new arms race between Russia and the United States.
With the INF now essentially undone, 32 years of nonproliferation efforts will likely be reversed.
The 1987 INF treaty prompted the United States and Russia (then the Soviet Union) to dispose of nearly 2,700 conventional and nuclear weapons with a range of between 310 and 3,417 miles.
View the complete July 31 article by D. Parvaz on the ThinkProgress website here.