The U.S. should withdraw from the New START Treaty in response to alleged Russian violations of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, the Wall Street Journal said in an Aug. 10 editorial that implores the Obama Administration to take action against Moscow. The Journal also encouraged the Administration to restore the ground-based missile-defense interceptors it shelved in 2009 as a response to the violations, which it suggested would undermine nuclear intimidation. “Arms control becomes truly dangerous if one party is allowed to cheat without consequences. The danger is even worse if the U.S. government publicly calls out an adversary but then does nothing,” the Journal said. “The Russians will get the message that they can keep cheating with impunity, and countries like Iran will also take the lesson. As then-Senator Kerry said in 2012, ‘If we’re going to have treaties with people, we’ve got to adhere to them.’ ”