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BRUSSELS, Oct. 30-- The leader of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) has said U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to pull the United States out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty is a huge blow to European security. Trump has announced that the United States planned to quit the treaty over what it sees as violations of the agreement by Moscow. Kate Hudson, General Secretary of the CND, told Xinhua that tearing up the INF treaty will mark the end of the restraints on nuclear arsenals achieved in the 1980s. "The INF Treaty was achieved largely as a massive result of popular protest against cruise and Pershing missiles over a number of years, and this needs to be reignited. Failure to do so and to defend the gains of the Treaty will ultimately result in nuclear war," Hudson told Xinhua in an interview from London. CND advocates unilateral nuclear disarmament by the United Kingdom, international nuclear disarmament and tighter international arms regulation through agreements such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Hudson describes the abandonment of the accord as a "dangerous and destabilizing move" with the potential revert the world back to the worst days of the Cold War. The historic Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, known as INF, was signed by former U.S. president Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987. "It meant cruise missiles were removed from Britain and Pershing, cruise and SS-20 missiles from continental Europe.... It will open the way for the return of cruise-type missiles to Europe -- and the increased potential for nuclear war on our continent," Hudson said. | 
