a very strong verification regime with on site inspections both at the sites but all the launch sites but all sort of you know factories and what have you so so it was a really important new way of doing on control many saw about sort of later as a first step toward elimination of nuclear weapons globally. this is nature one and open air electronic music festival held every august at the site of a decommissioned u.s. cruise missile base near the town of custom in western germany. but the missiles removed from this base are once again causing tensions you know twenty eighteen president trump said russia had been cheating on the i.n.f. treaty. russia has violated the agreement they ve been violating it for many years and i don t know why president obama didn t negotiate for full out that we re not going to let them violate a nuclear agreement when they go out and do weapons and we re not allowed to we re
a very strong verification regime with on site inspections both at the sites but all the launch sites but also of you know factories and what have you so so it was a really important new way of doing on control many saw about sort of later as a first step toward elimination of nuclear weapons globally. this is nature one and open air electronic music festival held every august at the site of a decommissioned u.s. cruise missile base near the town of cost a loan in western germany. but the missiles removed from this base are once again causing tensions you know twenty eight thousand president trump said russia had been cheating on the i.n.f. treaty. russia has violated the agreement they ve been violating it for many years and i don t know why president obama didn t negotiate for full out that we re not going to let them violate a nuclear agreement when they go out and do weapons and we re not allowed to we re
a total of nearly two thousand seven hundred missiles. some of the cruise missiles that were eliminated under terms of the agreement had been stored at facilities like this in germany. christensen says the treaty was unprecedented in its scope. it was the first class agreement that simply eradicated an entire class of missiles what was also important was that it had a very strong verification regime with on site inspections both at the sites but all the launch sites but also as you know factories and what have you so so it was a really. new way of doing on control many saw about sort of later as a first step toward elimination of nuclear weapons globally. this is nature one an open air electronic music festival held every august at the site of a decommissioned u.s. cruise missile base near the town of cost alone in western germany.
arguments that the russians need to come clean the problem is the russians of course argue that the americans have to come clean to on this on this mock forty one launch system in romania and elsewhere on aegis ships that can be done and i think that s really what nato at this point is arguing let s talk engage in diplomacy on site inspections really get the experts on both sides into see if we can overcome these perhaps misperceptions of this point in time and continue with the treaty but if we don t and this may be the intention of trump himself i really don t think nato will in the end long run support this i remember the the protests in the one nine hundred eighty s. against pershing twos and ground launched cruise missiles look comes we call them back then in the s.s. twenty from the from the soviets and those will happen again i m sure nobody nobody in europe here wants more nuclear weapons in europe i was six months of talks could be on the horizon paul walker director of green
a very specific class of weapons right so why is this treaty still valuable now in twenty nineteen versus one thousand nine hundred seventy but we ideally want to keep nuclear weapons away from any sort of you know point of of danger in central europe of course with nato and was a pact forces years ago facing off against each other was a very very. difficult and sensitive area if you want to keep nuclear weapons out of europe as much as we can as well as other as i say touch points such as the south china sea today with the chinese to introduce new nuclear weapons or missiles which violate the i.n.f. treaty that is missiles with a range of between five hundred and fifty five hundred kilometers would be a big step backward we ve we ve managed this treaty quite well for thirty years. the russians may have very well violated it we re not certain yet and that s what really requires right now more diplomacy and on site inspections and verification