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US begins work on new cruise missile after pulling out of cold war treaty

2019-03-12 09:30:32       source:The Guardian

March 11, 2019


The US has begun building parts for a new ground-launched cruise missile in anticipation of the end of a cold war treaty that banned them, the Pentagon has confirmed.


The Trump administration declared on 1 February it was no longer bound by the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty and would withdraw completely in August, pointing to the deployment of a new Russian missile which the US has complained for more than six years was a violation of the agreement.


Vladimir Putin suspended Russian INF obligations a month later.


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