Timothy A. Walton

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In January the Russian military rolled out a 9M729 land-based cruise missile and spelled out its specifications in an effort to refute the American claim that Russia had violated a key nuclear arms pact. Credit Pavel Golovkin/Associated Press

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After more than 30 years, the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (I.N.F.) Treaty ended last week, with an American withdrawal on Friday and a Russian withdrawal on Saturday. Although the United States abided by the terms of the treaty, Russia violated it by fielding more than 100 banned intermediate-range missiles, and China, which was never bound by it, fielded thousands. The United States has none.

To fix this gap, it is time for the Department of Defense to develop and field conventionally armed, ground-launched, intermediate-range missiles. The I.N.F. was a good treaty that reduced tensions and contributed to the peaceful end of the Cold War.…  Seguir leyendo »