Nuclear Fears Haunt Leaders With U.S.-Russian Arms Pact's Demise
- Arms-race specter raises alarm at global security conference
- Looming standoff revives memory of 1962 Cuban missile crisis
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President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of a landmark arms control treaty with Russia is turning the worst fears of a dangerous weapons race into reality.
The U.S. and its allies are laying the groundwork to deploy new intermediate-range missiles in Europe for the first time since they were banned in a 1987 treaty, a move that would prompt a tit-for-tat Russian response. With a second nuclear pact likely to expire in two years, the risks of confrontation are growing.