On February 1, 2019, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced [3] that the United States will withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty [4], a nuclear arms control agreement between the United States and Russia that was signed in 1987. Pompeo announced that the withdrawal will become effective in six months, under the terms of Article 15 of the treaty. He stated that the U.S. is withdrawing because Russia has violated the terms of the treaty for years and is currently in “material breach of its treaty obligations not to produce, possess, or flight-test a ground-launched intermediate-range cruise missile system with a range between 500 and 5,500 kilometers.” In a statement [5], President Trump said that the United States has adhered to the agreement for more than thirty years, but would not continue under the terms of the treaty if Russia remained in violation of it. The President left open the option of maintaining the treaty if “Russia comes back into compliance by destroying all of its violating missiles, launchers, and associated equipment.”