The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty

Assembled from 19 blocks · 1 evidence · 8 related

1. Story
2. Signed in Washington on 8 December 1987 by Reagan and Gorbachev, and the first arms control agreement to abolish an entire class of weapons rather than cap it. It eliminated all ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges between 500 and 5,500 kilometres, on both sides, together with their launchers and support equipment, and it did so under on-site inspection arrangements — including permanent portal monitoring at missile production plants — that were without precedent and that established the intrusive verification model later agreements inherited. The weapons it removed were the ones that had made Europe most dangerous: the Soviet SS-20 and the American Pershing II and ground-launched cruise missiles had flight times to their targets measured in single-digit minutes, which compressed decision time to the point where warning and deliberation barely fitted inside it. The United States withdrew in 2019, citing Russian non-compliance, and the treaty terminated on 2 August 2019.
3. Knowledge
4. The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
5. Mikhail Gorbachev
6. Connections
7. Mikhail Gorbachev
8. The Reykjavik summit
9. The INF Treaty is signed in Washington
10. The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
11. The Soviet intervention in Afghanistan
12. The Reykjavik summit
13. The INF Treaty is signed in Washington
14. The Berlin Wall opens
15. The attempted coup against Gorbachev
16. The Belavezha accords
17. The Soviet Union is formally dissolved
18. Evidence
19. Supports the signature date, the 500–5,500 km range band, the elimination of an entire class of weapons and the on-site inspection regime. V55 verification basis: NOT consulted; the number of missiles eliminated is deliberately not quoted anywhere in this pack.