For decades, the threat of nuclear conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union hung over humanity -- and occasionally the superpowers edged toward the brink, as with the Cuban missile crisis.

Russia has said it is no longer restricted in the deployment of intermediate and shorter-range missiles (INF), which can carry nuclear warheads.

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