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intermediate nuclear force
arms designation
Also known as: INF
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arms control
- In 20th-century international relations: Renewal of arms control
…to link Pershing deployment with intermediate nuclear forces (INF) talks with the U.S.S.R. Reagan tried to seize the moral high ground with his “zero-option” proposal for complete elimination of all such missiles from Europe and a call for new Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) to negotiate real reductions in the…
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effect on nuclear strategy
- In nuclear strategy: Limited nuclear war
…would constitute a more powerful intermediate-range nuclear force (INF): the Pershing II intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) and the Tomahawk cruise missile. The origins of the program to modernize the INF lay in two western European concerns over the U.S. nuclear guarantee. The first concern resulted from the tendency of the…
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