Join the Brookings Institution for a panel discussion on the future of a nuclear weapons treaty that both the U.S. and Russia have been accused of violating.

Concluded in 1987 by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty resulted in the elimination of some 2,700 U.S. and Soviet ground-launched intermediate-range missiles. The treaty, however, has entered difficult times. The United States has charged Russia with violating the treaty by deploying a banned intermediate-range ground-launched cruise missile; Moscow denies the charge and claims that the United States has violated the treaty. Meanwhile, Congress has approved legislation that would authorize the Defense Department to develop an intermediate-range ground-launched cruise missile of its own. Is the treaty about to come undone?

At 10:00 am on December 8—the 30^th anniversary of the INF treaty’s signing—the Brookings Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Initiative will hold a panel discussion on the treaty and its future. 

Participants:

Alina Polyakova, David M. Rubenstein Fellow

Olga Oliker, Senior Advisor and Director, Russia and Eurasia Program 

Steven Pifer, Nonresident Senior Fellow

Strobe Talbott, Distinguished Fellow in Residence