Ronald Reagan on why he could not accept disarmament deal

Title

Ronald Reagan on why he could not accept disarmament deal

Genre

Speech

TX Date

14 Oct 1986

Year of production

1986

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Duration

00:02:21

Description

US President Ronald Reagan gives a speech in which he explains the offers he made to remove all missiles by 1996 but why he could not accept the Soviet proposal for a ten-year delay in the deployment of the SDI Star Wars nuclear defence programme. He maintains that the talks themselves constituted diplomatic progress.

Contributors

Ronald Reagan

Keywords

USA; Peace; Human rights; USSR; International relations; Defence; Nuclear weapons; Diplomacy; Nuclear disarmament; Arms race; Defence policy; Nuclear warfare; Summits (meetings); Political leaders; Iceland; Nuclear testing; Mikhail Gorbachev; East West relations; Strategic Defense Initiative

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