PE148COL BUSH GORBATCHOV Signature Nuclear Disarmament Treaty Europe 1987

Reagan and Gorbachev sign historic Treaty on Dismantling Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces in Europe

Reykjavik (Iceland) October 11, 1986: Gorbachev - Reagan meeting. The USSR proposes a reduction in Euromissiles and intercontinental rockets in return for the abandonment of missile destruction experiments in space, linked to the “Strategic Defense Initiative”.

February 28, 1987: The USSR offers the United States a separate agreement on the dismantling of Euromissiles in two years.

Geneva (Switzerland) November 24, 1987: US Secretary of State Georges Schultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnaze reach final agreement on the Intermediate Missile (INF) Liquidation Treaty.

Washington DC (USA) 8 Dec. 1987: Presidents Reagan and Gorbachev sign the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range Missiles (500 to 5,000 km) in Europe.

This treaty concerning only 4% of the nuclear arsenals is qualified as historical, because it is the first agreement of true nuclear disarmament. for the first time since the end of the Second World War, the superpowers have abandoned the logic of the worst and systematic one-upmanship.