The United States is slated to withdraw officially from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty on Friday, August 2, clearing the way for a new arms race with Russia -- and throwing China into the mix.
The treaty -- concluded by then US president Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987 -- limited the Cold War superpowers' medium-range missiles, both conventional and nuclear. France 24 looks back.
