Advocates of the Obama administration’s nuclear deal with Iran argue that, despite the duplicity of the Iranian regime, the deal will work because arms control worked to contain the nuclear threat from the “evil empire” that was the Soviet Union. In fact, the USSR massively violated most of the arms-control agreements it concluded with the United States. Russia today is violating the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which eliminated an entire class of nuclear weapons and was therefore widely regarded as the most successful arms-control agreement in history — until recent cheating by Russian president Vladimir Putin.
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