“These missiles are highly destabilizing, they’re capable of reaching Moscow within 15 minutes,” Alexandra Bell, a former State Department official who is senior policy director for the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, said. “Withdrawing from the INF Treaty would be a terrible mistake.”
Instead, the U.S. should first pursue all possible diplomatic measures to bring the Russians back into compliance, beginning with providing the Russians with evidence of the violation, opponents of jettisoning the treaty say.