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Friday, December 15, 2017

The Vatican tries to reduce the revived global threat of nuclear war | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

The Vatican tries to reduce the revived global threat of nuclear war | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: With the demise of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, many experts felt that the threat of nuclear war had receded. In 1986, US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, at a summit in Reykjavik, Iceland, almost agreed to eliminate their nuclear arsenals altogether. Of course, they didn’t. They did, however, agree to eliminate all intermediate-range missiles under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), and discussed a possible strategic arms agreement.

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