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The December 1987 Treaty on intermediate nuclear forces represents a tremendous opportunity to push towards larger cuts in the nuclear arsenals. The INF Treaty not only has generated increased public expectations about, and renewed political commitment to, nuclear arms reductions; but it also has established three crucial precedents that will make further agreements easier; the complete removal and dismantling of entire classes of modern nuclear weapons; asymmetry in the reductions, wherein the side starting with more gives up more; and extensive and intrusive provisions for on-site verification.
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The Pugwash Council. (1989). Disengagement in Europe (Pugwash Symposium, April 1988). In: Rotblat, J., Goldanskii, V.I. (eds) Global Problems and Common Security. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75072-4_20
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