These operations could further increase, particularly with new on-site arms control inspection regimes (such as for INF and START) and with Western relaxation during a period of perceived detente.

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In 1983, the issue was whether the NATO alliance would proceed with its agreed plan to deploy hundreds of Pershing II ballistic missiles and Ground-Launched Cruise Missiles in five Western European nations (collectively known as Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces or INF).

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GLCM's were eventually scrapped as part of the terms of the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty signed between the United States and the former Soviet Union.

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