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Mikhail Gorbachev

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Mikhail Gorbachev
RIA Novosti archive, image #850809 / Vladimir Vyatkin / CC-BY-SA 3.0 / CC BY-SA 3.0 · resizedfile
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Gorbachev's agreement with Reagan on intermediate-range missiles in 1987, followed by START I with George H. W. Bush in 1991, made negotiated reductions part of Soviet policy. Read the two together: one abolished specified missile types, while the other limited strategic offensive forces. Neither amounted to nuclear abolition, but both moved beyond simply managing an expanding arsenal.
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