Europe in a multipolar missile world – Why the EU and NATO should not try to salvage the INF Treaty. Egmont Paper 106, April 2019
Journal: Archive of European Integration (AEI) (University of Pittsburgh)
Year: 2019

On 1 February 2019, the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that his country had suspended its compliance with the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty, or INF Treaty, and would withdraw from it within six months. The INF Treaty, little known outside of arms control and disarmament circles, was a landmark Cold War agreement between the United States of America and the USSR – the first to ban an entire category of weapons (ground-based medium- and intermediate-range missiles). The US