INF Treaty
INF Treaty (1987).Signed by U.S. president Ronald Reagan and Soviet general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev on 7 December 1987, the treaty on the elimination of U.S. and Soviet intermediate‐ and shorter‐range missiles was the first arms control agreement to eliminate—not simply set limits on—nuclear missile systems. Informally known as the INF Treaty (or Intermediate‐range Nuclear Forces Treaty), it required the destruction of all U.S. and Soviet ground‐launched ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges between 500 and 5,500 kilometers and of the missiles' essential infrastructure. The treaty resulted in the elimination within three years of 846 U.S. longer‐ and shorter‐range INF missile systems and 1,846 similar Soviet systems, and it banned such systems in the future.
In the mid‐1970s, the Soviets deployed new, highly accurate, intermediate‐range mobile Soviet...
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