New book combines Soviet and U.S. transcripts of highest-level meetings that ended the Cold War
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Description
Previously secret transcripts of summit meetings between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, held from 1985 to 1988, anchor a book announced by the National Security Archive in December 2016. The volume, published with Central European University Press, adds George H. W. Bush's later talks with Gorbachev, from 1989 through 1991, so both sides of the table speak in their own words.
Read side by side, the Soviet and American records show Gorbachev pushing what the Archive calls an arms race in reverse. Reagan urges quiet talk on human rights rather than public pressure. Bush at first seeks new nuclear weapons, then comes around to cuts near the end. For readers, the paired transcripts show how the Cold War ended in the room, not just in speeches.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | National Security Archive |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | DECLASSIFIED |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 9,281 bytes |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | National Security Archive |