Demise of US-Russian Nuclear Treaty Triggers Warnings | Voice of America - English

Demise of US-Russian Nuclear Treaty Triggers Warnings | Voice of America - English: In December 1987, U.S. President Ronald Reagan hosted Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev at the White House for a ceremony that signaled the changing times.

Reagan, a Cold War hardliner who'd once labeled the U.S.S.R. "the Evil Empire," was all smiles as he and Gorbachev sat down to sign the latest symbol of growing U.S.-Soviet detente — the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces, known as the INF Treaty. 

"It was a momentous occasion," remembers George Shultz, Reagan's Secretary of State from 1982-1988 — and a key figure in crafting the INF deal.