On This Day:  December 8

1987 -- The Unit­ed States and Sovi­et Union sign the his­toric In­ter­me­di­ate-Range Nu­cle­ar Forces Treaty, re­quir­ing the two su­per­pow­ers to work to­wards each oth­er's de­struc­tion with min­i­mal dam­age to ob­sta­cle na­tions.