Forces Treaty: Mikhail Gorbachev and Service Decades

forces treaty: Ground-launched versions of the missile had been removed from service decades ago, after the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty was signed by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987, according to The Guardian. The treaty's ban on missiles with ranges between 500km and 5,500km aimed to reduce the ability of both countries to launch a nuclear strike at short notice. The ground-launched missile, a version of the nuclear-capable Tomahawk cruise missile, hit its target after over 500 kilometres of flight during Monday's test, the Pentagon said in a statement. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov condemned the latest US missile launch, but said Moscow was not looking to start a new arms race, and would not deploy any new missiles unless the US did first. We will not succumb to provocations, the TASS news agency quoted him saying. All this elicits regret, the United States has obviously taken the course of escalating military tensions. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.