the i.n.f. treaty this leaves them free to build all the intermediate all the intermediate range missiles that they would like. there is no reason the united states and continue to see this crucial military advantage to revision as powers like china in particular when these weapons are being used to threaten and coerce the united states and its allies in asia. now home peo and other nato foreign ministers they spent the day also discussing how to save the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty nato says that a new russian cruise missile violates the i.n.f. treaty that treaty has guaranteed europe security for more than thirty years the kremlin tonight is denying that it has done anything to breach the treaty the i.n.f. bans nuclear armed missiles with a range of five thousand five hundred kilometers.