It is U.S. and allied determination to maintain our security, which I continue to view as indivisible, that has given us this opportunity to achieve an historic agreement which, for the first time, would actually reduce nuclear weapons.
Statement on Soviet-United States Intermediate-Range Nuclear Force Reduction Negotiations
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