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As Pompeo Issues INF Ultimatum, Defense Hawks in Washington Suggest Weapons for Post-treaty World

Tuesday, December 4th, 2018

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As Pompeo Issues INF Ultimatum, Defense Hawks in Washington Suggest Weapons for Post-treaty World

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The day the U.S. delivered an ultimatum that it could leave the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty by February, hawkish think-tankers and former government shared weapons shopping lists for the post-treaty world — which in one case included in-theater nuclear missiles.The defense hawks spoke on a panel hosted by the Air Force Association at the conservative Capitol Hill Club just down the street from Congress. One, Rick Fisher, called for deploying nuclear-armed missiles to the region to quell possible Chinese…

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