US House Armed Services Committee has moved to nullify the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia, endorsing a measure that would entrust President Donald Trump to decide whether the United States should scrap the deal.
The Republican-led measure, which was added around midnight Thursday to a draft of next year’s defense spending bill, states that the United States will no longer consider the treaty binding without White House verification of Russia’s full compliance, the Washington Post reported.
“You cannot have a treaty with oneself, and that’s the situation we’re in,” said Rep. Michael Turner, offering his support for the measure. “. . . We need to recognize reality.”
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty of 1987 has been at the forefront of a long-running policy fight between those who believe Cold War denuclearization pacts ought to be updated and preserved, and those who put more faith in nuclear deterrence to keep aggressor nations at bay.
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