Nuclear Weapons

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and the Soviet Union to limit the numbers in nuclear weapons.
In 1982, the United States and the Soviet Union began the Strategic Arms
Reduction Talks(START). Unlike the SALT talks, these were aimed at the number
of nuclear weapons each country could obtain. Then there was another treaty
signed in 1987 which was called the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces(INF).
This treaty called for the dismantling of ground-launched nuclear missiles.
A major obstacle to controlling nuclear weapons has been a lack of trust
between the two principal powers; the United States and the Soviet Union. The
relationship has improved though in the late 1980�s after President Gorbachev
introduced the principles of glasnost and perestroika to the Soviet Political
System. In 1989 and 1990, democratic reforms spread spread across Eastern
Europe. These reforms have greatly reduced tensions.
The country of China still wants to test their nuclear explosions for
mining and for some construction. For two ...

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