{"id":344114,"date":"2025-08-07T16:44:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T11:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=344114"},"modified":"2025-08-07T16:44:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T11:14:36","slug":"intermediate-range-nuclear-forces-inf-treaty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/intermediate-range-nuclear-forces-inf-treaty\/","title":{"rendered":"Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News: <\/strong>Russia has officially announced that it no longer considers itself bound by the INF Treaty.<\/p>\n<h2>About the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty<\/strong> obligated the <strong>United States and the Soviet Union<\/strong> to <strong>eliminate<\/strong> and <strong>permanently renounce<\/strong> all of their <strong>nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles<\/strong> with ranges between <strong>500 and 5,500 kilometers<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>It was signed in 1987<\/strong> between the <strong>United States<\/strong> and the <strong>Soviet Union<\/strong> (now Russia).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Purpose:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>To reduce the nuclear threat by eliminating specific categories of nuclear and conventional missiles.<\/li>\n<li>Aimed to halt the <strong>escalating arms race<\/strong> during the Cold War, particularly in Europe.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Key Leaders Involved: <\/strong><strong>Ronald Reagan<\/strong> (U.S. President) and <strong>Mikhail Gorbachev<\/strong> (Soviet Leader)<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>United States withdrew<\/strong> from the treaty in 2019, citing <strong>Russia\u2019s alleged violations<\/strong>. Following this, <strong>Russia has now officially abandoned<\/strong> its commitment to the treaty.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Russia has officially announced that it no longer considers itself bound by the INF Treaty. About the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty: The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty obligated the United States and the Soviet Union to eliminate and permanently renounce all of their nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/intermediate-range-nuclear-forces-inf-treaty\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,12039],"tags":[11872,11966],"class_list":["post-344114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-akashwani","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344114","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\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}