(On July 26 Dingmao), September 18, 1987 the United States and the Soviet Union on the destruction of intermediate-range nuclear missiles reached an agreement between the two countries. In 18 am

1987, U.S. President Ronald Reagan in the White House announced that U.S. and Soviet medium-range nuclear missiles to reach an agreement on the destruction of the two countries. Reference the afternoon of December 8, 2011, 02 pm (EST), in the East Room of the White House, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed destroyed the two medium-range and short-range nuclear missile treaty.
under the treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1991, a total destruction of more than 2,400 nuclear missiles head. These warheads are equivalent to about 4% of the nuclear arsenals of the United States and the Soviet Union two. signed
after more than six years of difficult negotiations of this treaty, the US-Soviet disarmament negotiations in the history of the first to really reduce the number of nuclear weapons treaty when signing a treaty, Reagan said: "We trust each other, but the trust still needs verification . "Gorbachev said:" You have repeated this sentence. The "
specifically to this provisions of the treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union, will be destroyed range of 500-5000 km land-based nuclear missiles, the total number of warheads in 2400, which the Soviet missiles to be destroyed than in the U.S. more than 1 times.
this treaty in which the more compelling it?
- This is the history of the two superpowers disarmament treaty to reduce nuclear weapons. strict inspection measures of
- The provisions of the treaty is rare. The provisions of the treaty both sides in the off-limits has always been top secret exchange of inspectors Permanent production of missile factories and facilities, and conduct surprise checks.
- Treaty contribute to future arms talks, in particular, is of strategic offensive arms negotiations.
this treaty is signed, the government and the leaders of some countries of the world were published bulletins and talk, welcomed. And hope that the United States and the Soviet Union can continue negotiations on strategic nuclear weapons, chemical weapons and conventional weapons. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in a speech in December 8, welcomed the INF Treaty, but she stressed that the United Kingdom will continue to maintain its own nuclear weapons and modern. Chancellor Helmut Kohl of the Federal Republic of Germany, "just the first step towards fewer weapons world", "should continue to disarmament process". French President Francois Mitterrand (lsjt.net) said in favor of the INF Treaty, he pointed out that a conditional can be checked and balanced, both the disarmament of maintaining a guarantee of peace. Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita, 9 am sent a congratulatory message to U.S. President Ronald Reagan and a hearty welcome. UN Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar said in a statement, saying that the INF treaty is a "historic agreement" and expressed hearty welcome. There are national leaders in Eastern Europe, Asia-Pacific, Africa and Latin America respectively, a statement or conversation, urged the United States and the Soviet Union began with further reduction of armaments to the INF Treaty.