{"id":379664,"date":"2018-10-04T21:04:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T20:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/note-to-nato-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-10-04T21:04:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T20:04:17","slug":"note-to-nato-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/note-to-nato-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Note to NATO – LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Earlier today the U.S. ambassador to NATO\u00a0threatened to \u201ctake out\u201d<\/a>\u00a0a new kind of Russian missiles:<\/p>\n

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The U.S. envoy to NATO on Tuesday said that Russia must halt development of new missiles that could carry nuclear warheads and warned that the United States could \u201ctake out\u201d the system if it becomes operational.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The U.S. and Russia have for some time disagreed about the INF treaty. The\u00a0Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty<\/a>\u00a0was signed in 1987 between the Soviet General Secretary Gorbachov and U.S. President Reagan. It prohibits land based (not sea based) nuclear capable systems with a range of more than 500 kilometers and less than 5,500 kilometers. The agreement came to pass after the Soviets stationed SS-20 missiles in East Europe. NATO responded with the Pershing II deployment. The problem with these missiles was warning time. Fired at a relative short range they threatened to overwhelm one side before it could respond. The missiles thus destroyed the equilibrium of\u00a0Mutual Assured Destruction<\/a>\u00a0(MAD). The INF treaty banned these missiles.<\/p>\n

Russia\u00a0said for years<\/a>\u00a0that the U.S.\u00a0broke the INF agreement<\/a>\u00a0when it stationed missile defense systems in Europe to allegedly take out North Korean and Iranian intercontinental missiles. The missile defense missiles could\u00a0be armed with nuclear warheads and could probably be used in a surface-to-surface mode<\/a>. Previously deployed U.S. Nike-Hercules \u2018air defense\u2019 missiles\u00a0had such capabilities<\/a>. The National Defense Authorization Act for the year 2018\u00a0calls for<\/a>\u00a0(pdf, pg 240):
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Earlier today the U.S. ambassador to NATO\u00a0threatened to \u201ctake out\u201d\u00a0a new kind of Russian missiles: The U.S. envoy to NATO on Tuesday said that Russia must halt development of new missiles that could carry nuclear warheads and warned that the United States could \u201ctake out\u201d the system if it becomes operational. The U.S. and Russia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-379664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}