{"id":32545,"date":"2018-10-29T15:16:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T09:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=32545"},"modified":"2018-11-19T16:16:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T10:46:40","slug":"u-s-to-pull-out-of-russia-missile-pact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/u-s-to-pull-out-of-russia-missile-pact\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. to pull out of Russia missile pact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-international\/us-to-pull-out-of-russia-missile-pact\/article25282153.ece\">U.S. to pull out of Russia missile pact<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>S. is planning to pull out of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty with Russia, after its alleged development and deployment of the Novator 9M729 missile.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Important Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><strong>About Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a bilateral treaty signed by the US and the USSR in 1987.<\/li>\n<li>It is a crucial Cold War-era treaty banning the development, testing and possession of short and medium range ground-launched nuclear missiles, except sea-launched weapons, with a range of 500-5,000 km.<\/li>\n<li>This treaty, signed in 1987, was central to ending the arms race between the two superpowers, and protected America\u2019s NATO allies in Europe from Soviet missile attacks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><strong>Background: <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>The US insists the Russians have, in breach of the deal, developed a new medium-range missile called the Novator 9M729 &#8211; known to Nato as the SSC-8.<\/li>\n<li>It would enable Russia to launch a nuclear strike at Nato countries at very short notice.<\/li>\n<li>However, the Russians denied the allegations and raised counter-allegations of the U.S. installing missile defence systems in Europe.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li><strong>Impact on USA security:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>The US was considering withdrawing from the treaty in a bid to counter China&#8217;s expanding military presence in the western Pacific.<\/li>\n<li>However, pulling out of INF Treaty may put the US at a disadvantage because China does not face any constraints on developing intermediate-range nuclear missiles in the Pacific as it is not a signatory to INF treaty.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li>The last time the US withdrew from a major arms treaty was in 2002, when President George W Bush pulled the US out of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which banned weapons designed to counter ballistic nuclear missiles.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. to pull out of Russia missile pact News: S. is planning to pull out of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty with Russia, after its alleged development and deployment of the Novator 9M729 missile. Important Facts: About Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty: It is a bilateral treaty signed by the US and the USSR&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/u-s-to-pull-out-of-russia-missile-pact\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">U.S. to pull out of Russia missile pact<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[886,224,884,239,887,885],"class_list":["post-32545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","tag-disarmament","tag-gs-2","tag-intermediate-range-nuclear-forces","tag-international-relations","tag-novator-9m729","tag-us-russia","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704866951},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}