On‐Site Inspection Agency
On‐Site Inspection Agency.On‐site inspection, a long‐term demand of the United States for verification of nuclear arms control and disarmaments agreements, was finally accepted by the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987. The verification provisions of the INF Treaty of December 1987 between the United States and USSR authorized on‐site inspectors to monitor and record the elimination of missiles. Consequently, the Department of Defense established a small, 40‐person agency to conduct and receive INF Treaty inspections; more than 230 on‐site inspections were conducted in the first year. In 1990, President George Bush signed the Threshold Test Ban Treaty, the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty, and the Wyoming Memorandum of Understanding on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, each stipulating on‐site inspections. The On‐Site...
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