Reader' Blog: US nuclear withdrawal endangering the world
It is irresponsible of US President Donald Trump to unilaterally withdraw his country from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (Irish Examiner, February 2 ).
It was signed in 1987 by then US president Ronald Reagan and general secretary of the Soviet communist party Mikhail Gorbachev, largely due to the moral pressure from throughout the world for an end to the nuclear arms race and the threat of annihilation that had characterised the Cold War.
