With INF Treaty Threatened, Cold War Fears Return

COCHEM, GERMANY - FEBRUARY 27: A German 'Tornado' fighter aircraft prepares to land at Büchel air base on February 27, 2019 near Cochem, Germany. The Büchel air base, officially a base of the German air force, the Luftwaffe, houses B61 nuclear bombs of the U.S. military and has been the only base with U.S. nuclear weapons in Germany since 2007. U.S. President Donald Trump, claiming Russian non-compliance, has threatened to withdraw the U.S. from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) with Russia that prohibits both countries from maintaining land-based nuclear missiles with a range of 500 to 5,500km. Should both countries withdraw from the agreement, many people in Europe fear a return to a Cold War-era nuclear rivalry between the U.S. and Russia with Europe in the middle. (Photo by Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images)