| 12/8: | President Reagan and Soviet President Gorbachev sign the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), agreeing to destroy all of both countries' intermediate range nuclear missiles (missiles with a range of 1,000 to 5,000 miles). Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's statement ten years later: http://secretary.state.gov/www/statements/971205a.html (source: The Learning Kingdom) |