Russia Is Using Banned Missile, So US Looks to Build Same One

The Pentagon has researched what it would take to build a kind of missile banned under a Cold War-era treaty—in an effort to pressure Russia to stop using those very missiles. 

Officials tell the Wall Street Journal they are "laying the groundwork" necessary to build ground-based, intermediate-range missiles banned under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Force Treaty (INF) signed by the US and Soviet Union in 1987 as part of a new US strategy on Russia. 

Officials say Russia has been in violation of the treaty since 2012, which the Washington Post reports led congressional Republicans to lean on the Obama administration to do something. A year ago, it did ask Russia to cop to its production, but received only a denial. US intelligence determined the missile was actually used in February.

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