Resumen de United States alleges Russia continues to violate INF treaty

Kristina Daugirdas, Julian Davis Mortenson

• The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty), signed by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987, obligates the parties “not to possess, produce, or flight-test a ground-launched cruise missile (GLCM) with a range capability of 500 km to 5,500 km, or to possess or produce launchers of such missiles.” In 2014, the State Department reported that Russia was in violation of its obligation not to possess intermediate- or short-range missiles. Russia denied the violation and expressed its own doubts about the United States' compliance with the INF Treaty; the meetings and discussions that followed did not resolve either state's concerns. Subsequent State Department reports in 2015 and 2016 continued to express concern about Russia's violation.