re: #422 wlewisiii

Baloney. Gorbachev didn’t even take power till Reagan’s second term, and he tried to get us to reduce spending by limiting SDI (via the summit at Reykjavik, since he knew the Soviet Union could not build such a system). Moreover, from early on Reagan had offered the “Zero Option” regarding Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBMs). When the Gorbachev agreed to this option in 1987, Reagan happily signed the IRBM Treaty and America’s Pershing IIs were withdrawn and scrapped. Your argument does not hold water.