US arms control proposal to USSR

Title

US arms control proposal to USSR

Genre

News report; Interview; Speech

TX Date

1 Nov 1985

Year of production

1985

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Duration

00:03:29

Description

Andrew Manderstam reports on US President Ronald Reagan’s announcement that a new US nuclear arms control proposal will be put to the USSR at the Geneva summit with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in three weeks time. Includes announcement extracts, with Reagan on positive aspects of the earlier Soviet counter proposal. Also US Secretary of State George Shultz denying this is a propaganda game.

Contributors

Andrew Manderstam; Ronald Reagan; George Shultz

Keywords

USA; Geneva; USSR; Nuclear weapons; Arms control; Diplomacy; Summits (meetings); Mikhail Gorbachev; East West relations

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