The risk wasn’t reduced by the US unilaterally reducing the arsenal. It was reduced b/c of the collapse of the Soviet Union as a political power, which allowed for the reduction of the arsenal. During earlier Soviet expansion the same action would have increased the threat.
His key legacy was reducing the risk of nuclear war. We might not be here without him. Everything else pales in comparison.https://twitter.com/gcaw/status/1068750458704019456 …
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Gorbachev agreed with nuclear detente in Jan 1986, less than a year from taking power, even before it became aparent that his internal reforms ( perestroika and glasnosti) will fail and USSR will go down.
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the risk was reduced mostly by Gorbachev who initiated the nuclear detente with Reagan in 1986. Bush just continued the process. Nothing would have happened without Gorby initiating the reforms of the Soviet block - the thing that Putin has been hating ever since.
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His key legacy was breaking his campaign promise not to raise taxes, paving the Clintons’ path to power. We have suffered the consequences of that ever since. Not to mention going to war with Saddam Hussein and losing the peace.
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"In January 1986, Gorbachev wrote Reagan with a proposal: eliminate all nuclear weapons by 2000."
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All those dead Iraqis pale in comparison
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