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Ronald Reagan: “Arms control must be an instrument of, and not a substitute for, a coherent security policy aimed in the first instance…”

On the recordFebruary 8, 1983
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).
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

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

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