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Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Announcement by Gorbachev of moratorium on deployment of medium range weapons”) [“each of the systems will prove by strength of example and not by strength of arms which of them is better”] [declassified Dec 2014]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/1656 f26
Editorial comments: Sent 0530Z. The full file from which this item is taken can be seen here. Read other documents selected from this file.
Importance ranking: Key
Word count: 4pp
Themes: Defence (general), Defence (arms control), Foreign policy - theory and process, Foreign policy (USA), Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), British relations with the US, British relations with the Soviet Union