By the way, in, of all places, FAS, there is a little blurb about those SS-20s, at least some of them. Can't remember the URL but it's somewhere in an earlier post, I think the one from a few months back about the Chechnyan "rebel" who was "killed by the FSB." The SS-20s of note were seen in a military parade in Chechnya in 1994! I will not go into the various theories regarding to what extent the Chechnya "rebellion" is a bona fide insurgency verus the worlds largest, and, longest lasting, fully stage managed live fire exercise. But suffice it to say, the Russians cheated big time on the INF using various means, and, the SS-20s are still out there as part of the shell game.
Someday, I'll have to expound on their cousins, the TEL resident DF-15s in Kunming PRC, at the northern end of the new superhighway set to open within weaks, that leads down south into Thailand...
You're absolutely correct about the Russian SS-20s. The Russians still have a bunch of these fantastically potent 3 warhead IRBMs which turn into SS-25 ICBMs when you put a third stage on them even though they were purportedly abolished by the IMF Treaty signed in 1987. Funny, the Russians used to have to cheat on their bilateral nuclear disarmament treaties with the US. With the Treaty of Moscow, there is no need for them to cheat, because the treaty does not require them to destroy, let alone disarm, any of their strategic nuclear missiles. Rummy was right to oppose this insane and unverifiable treaty which will go far to increase the current Russian strategic nuclear superiority over the US due to the planned unilateral destruction of thousands of our strategic nukes.