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Mikhail Gorbachev

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1985-91). Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (1988-89). Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (1989-90). President of the Soviet Union (1990-91).

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“A New Nuclear Arms Race Has Begun”

by Mikhail Gorbachev

Moscow (Russia) | 26 October 2018

Over 30 years ago, President Ronald Reagan and I signed in Washington the United States-Soviet Treaty on the elimination of intermediate- and shorter-range missiles. For the first time in history, two classes of nuclear weapons were to be eliminated and destroyed.
This was a first step. It (...)