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

... War, as the two countries were already on the peak of the disarmament process. U.S. President George Bush Sr floated the proposal in 1989, and the Soviet authorities of the time accepted it with enthusiasm, just as they had any initiatives related to international security. By then, the Open Skies system had already been pioneered with a multilateral treaty ensuring mutual trust between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. The first mutual proof-of-concept observation flights were conducted by Hungary and Canada in January 1990 [ 3 ]. The Treaty ...