Ronald Reagan actually said...

Arms control must be an instrument of, and not a substitute for, a coherent security policy aimed in the first instance at the Soviet advantage in the most destabilizing class of weapons—ballistic missiles and, especially, intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs).

Context

Message to the Congress Transmitting the Annual Report of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

02/08/1983

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