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And as Dmitry said, the United States and Russia, because of our history and because we are nuclear superpowers, have a special obligation.
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He said that the balance of terror between the nuclear superpowers was preferable to trusting the communists: he tended to be against negotiations designed to reduce stocks of arms.
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But the combination of two world wars fought largely on European soil and a 40-year Cold War changed all that, making much of Europe a pawn between two nuclear superpowers.
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In the bipolar international system of the Cold War, nations took their cue on nuclear matters from the two superpowers.
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Thus, the 1972 ABM Treaty and the 1974 Vladivostok summit utterly failed to restrict the nuclear arsenals of the two superpowers.
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Its ability to defend Taiwan from a Chinese invasion, say, or even to back up the Philippines or Vietnam in a clash with China over a contentious rock in the South China Sea relies on its willingness to see these conflicts become wars involving the superpowers or even nuclear confrontations.
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When the two superpowers were there, with their gigantic nuclear arsenals, people said if there were another world war, the earth would be destroyed.
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Union, Mr. Kampelman engaged in protracted negotiations in Geneva during the Reagan administration that resulted in a 1987 agreement in which the two superpowers agreed to eliminate ground-launched intermediate-range nuclear missiles.
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