Collision and Collusion: The Public, Nuclear Weapons, and Arms Control

On 8 January 1985 US Secretary of State George Schultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko announced in Geneva that the United States and the Soviet Union would resume the arms control talks that had been interrupted in December 1983, when the Soviets walked out of negotiations to protest NATO’s deployment of intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF). The new round of talks revived negotiations on both strategic and INF systems and initiated negotiations on the limitation of defensive weapons systems. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.