Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, warned on Friday that the world was d...
FILE PHOTO: Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev arrives for ceremonies marking the anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, in Red Square in central Moscow, Russia, May 9, 2019. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
Gorbachev, whose 1980s arms control push and democracy-oriented reforms helped end the Cold War, made the comments to the daily newspaper Izvestia two months after the demise of a landmark nuclear pact he signed in 1987. U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration formally pulled out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in August, accusing Moscow of violating it, and then tested a missile with a range previously banned under the treaty.
The last major nuclear arms control treaty between Russia and the United States, the New START treaty, is due to expire in 2021. It limits the number of strategic nuclear warheads the world’s two biggest nuclear powers can deploy.
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