Ronald Reagan actually said...

Our goal remains not to match the Warsaw Pact system-for-system or warhead-for-warhead, but to maintain forces adequate for credible deterrence and defense.

Context

Letter to the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate on the NATO Tactical Nuclear Posture

09/11/1984

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