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The Cold War Ends:
At the close of the Moscow Summit, President Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev issued a joint statement. It said in part that both nations were determined to prevent any war between them and disavowed "any intention to achieve military superiority."
The next year, the Berlin Wall came down. The Soviet Union fell apart by the end of 1991. Ten years later, the United States had reduced its nuclear arsenals by 38 percent; Russia by 53 percent. After nearly five decades, the Cold War was over. |