Ronald Reagan actually said...

The security of the United States and the entire free world, today and for the foreseeable future, depends on the maintenance of an effective and credible nuclear deterrent by the U.S.

Context

Message to the Senate Urging Ratification of Two Treaties Limiting Soviet-United States Nuclear Testing

01/12/1987

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