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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
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Saif Khalid

What is the missile treaty Russia has walked out of – and why?

US President Donald Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin are seen during the G20 leaders' summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on November 30, 2018 [Marcos Brindicci/Reuters]

Russia on Monday announced it will stop abiding by a decades-old nuclear missile treaty with the United States, raising fears of the return of a Cold War-style arms race.

The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, signed in 1987, had put a moratorium on the deployment of short and medium-range missiles between the world’s leading military powers.

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