The U.S. and Russia Are Sleepwalking Toward Nuclear Disaster - POLITICO Magazine

riday morning’s announcement by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that America will withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty because of Russian violations is the latest wake-up call that relations between the world’s nuclear superpowers are dangerously off the rails. The fear of nuclear confrontation was once omnipresent in Washington and Moscow.