The 'Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty', or INF for short, signed by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev on December 8, 1987, was a milestone in the nuclear disarmament negotiations between the United States of America and the Soviet Union Russia and the USA terminated. The English-language volume examines the history of the agreement, its implementation and consequences both in the two superpowers and in the states allied with them. It is the first comprehensive presentation of one of the most important disarmament agreements of recent times.