Wednesday, February 06, 2008

russia 'ditching cold war pacts'

russia 'ditching cold war pacts'from telegraph: Russia is steadily "unraveling" the historic arms control treaties that ended the Cold War and became cornerstones of European security, the most comprehensive survey of global military trends said yesterday.

The Military Balance 2008 Military Balance 2008: Press Statement (375kb PDF) portrays Russia as breaking out of the constraints imposed by treaties once considered inviolable.

John Chipman, the head of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, which published the survey, said the "next target of Moscow’s assertive revisionism" could be the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty of 1987.
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