reduce by half the nuclear arms that could reach each other's territories. Stage two: other nuclear powers would begin to engage in nuclear disarmament.
nuclear weapons would be eliminated by the end of 1999.
Reason The Union's statement, however, stressed would only be possible if and the USA mutually the testing and deployment of space strike weapons Star Wars was to be used by Reagan as the main reason for refusing any deal for the next 12 months.
As a result of the USSR offer, and others made by Gorbachev, the United Seensive in the propagane States was da war.
In the autumn of 1986 Gorbachev met face-to-face in Iceland.
The US president was unversaily percelveu lo oc responsible for the failure of the nuclear arms talks in Içeland. Even that pillar of the United States establishment, Time magazine, was forced to admit it.
The 27 October 1986 a pile of manure in his room on Christmas morning and begis snoveling convinced that 'there must be a pony here somewhere."
This Monday televised report to the naGreat Communicator took his case on the campaign trail. But his aides handled most of the spin control, trooping berore every mcrophone, TV camera, journalistic CONCA group of citizens they could find or Silinion uncover pony of hope under what at first looked like the manure of Reykjavik.' Offer magazine plained 'the spindoctors hammered at three main points': cordache not blocked drastic reduction nuclear weapons by demanding all work on the Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI) be confined to laboratory research for had no choice but to reject this demand, which would have killed SDI; the summit was not a failure but a success world to the brink of a deal that had seemed unimaginable.
A few weeks after the Iceland summit, at a Vienmeeting between US USSR foreign ministers, Eduard Shevardnadze indicated that the Soviet was ready to negotiate on the individual agreements' Talks would not be made conditional on the Star Wars issues By the end of February this year, the Soviet Union had made the offer which December's treaty will be based. In a statement issued by TASS news on Saturday February 1987, Mikhail Gorbachev said: "The soviet Union suggests that the problem of mediumrange missles in Europe be singled out trood that the nackage of issues. i a separate agreement on it be concluded, and without delay.' learisation of Europe.