NUCLEAR/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump confirmed Saturday [10-20-18] that the U.S. would be abandoning a Cold War-era arms treaty, arguing that Russia has defied the terms of the decades-old agreement…Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev brokered the pact in 1987 to halt the proliferation of nuclear and conventional missiles…White House national security adviser John Bolton, who departed this weekend for a trip to Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia, was scheduled to meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on Saturday.”
–Quint Forgey, “Trump: U.S. to withdraw from arms treaty with Russia,” Politico, October 19, 2018 6:55 pm