Darkened Skies: The U.S. Might Withdraw from the Treaty on Open Skies

...., since American observation aircraft fly over Russia twice as frequently as Russian aircraft over the U.S. We are left to observe the situation and wait for Washington to take whatever next step it decides on. If that step is taken towards burying Treaty on Open Skies, all we can do is hope that the Russian reaction will be calculated appropriately. 1 . “Back to the Future and Up to the Sky: Legal Implications of ‘Open Skies’ Inspection for Arms Control”, PDF , стр. 427 2 . The panic and fear, apparently fed by the scaremongering U.S. defence industry, that Soviet Russia was hiding, somewhere in the vistas of its territory, legions of combat-ready strategic ...