Mikhail Vladimirovich Leontyev. (№ 363680)

The agreement of 1987 provided for the zero option. For the first time eliminated an entire class of weapons - land-based missiles with ranges of 500 to 5,500 km. While the Soviet Union went on the asymmetric reduction, abandoning the rockets carrying more than 3,000 nuclear warheads, twice now set for Russia and the United States capabilities. That some now interpret as a betrayal, given that, Gorbachev agreed to the destruction of a unique complex "Oka", are generally not subject to the parameters of the agreement. It's funny that now, as 30 years ago, the ultimate need to destroy our missiles, the so-called SSC-8, also do not fall under the parameters of the agreement.
"The claims of both sides have one thing in common despite their difference: formally neither the one nor the other side do not violate the letter of the Treaty. That is, in this case violated the spirit of the Treaty, but literally, the contract is not violated. Since this contract is about the tests and the deployment of strike systems with a range of over 500 kilometers," - said the Deputy Director of the Center for analysis of strategies and technologies, Konstantin Makienko.
Then the Americans believe that the modernization potential of our missiles does not allow to increase its range to as much as you want. And we don't believe that Americans don't stick to launcher PRO or missile target normal combat.