Trump Takes Aim at a Critical Cold War Treaty with Russia

Published: Oct. 21, 2019, 7:23 a.m.

If you looked across the tarmac at the Great Falls, Montana airport in April, you likely would have been surprised to see a fully marked Russian Air Force jet parked nearby. Its mission that week would have been even more puzzling: The unarmed Tupolev Tu-154Mspent four days flying over some of the most sensitive military bases in the United States, including the complex in the Nevada desert known as \u201cArea 51.