JUST IN: Trump admin. is planning to withdraw from the Open Skies arms control treaty, which allows more than 30 nations to conduct unarmed, short-notice flights over one another's territories, a senior admin. official tells NBCNews.
More than 1,500 flights have been conducted under the treaty, but Russia has restricted flights over certain areas.
Exiting the treaty is expected to strain relations with Moscow and upset European allies and some members of Congress.President Dwight Eisenhower first proposed that the United States and the former Soviet Union allow aerial reconnaissance flights over each other’s territory in 1955. At first, Moscow rejected the idea, but President George H.W. Bush revived it in 1989, and the treaty entered into force in January 2002.
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