There Zhukov was open to ideas of reducing nuclear weapons, initially impressing Khrushchev with his willingness to downsize the massive Soviet military.
Appearing with Albright, National Security Advisor Sandy Berger contended Clinton and Yeltsin are poised to make strides in reducing nuclear weapons arsenals, though he did not address the uncertainty Russia's parliament will agree.
Well, there is room to disagree on the exact approach of reducing nuclear weapons, but make no mistake about it this administration is intent on reducing and continuing to reduce our nuclear weapons.
Indeed, in the face of a once-robust Strategic Defense Initiative begun in 1983 by Ronald Reagan, first the Soviets and then the Russians signed treaties reducing nuclear weapons, including the START II treaty signed in 1993.
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Following their meeting the pair announced that the US and Russia are to reopen negotiations on reducing their nuclear weapons stockpiles - the first such talks for more than a decade.
He directed a Nuclear Policy Review that committed the government to reducing the role of nuclear weapons in national strategy, scaling back the size of the strategic arsenal, and continuing a 20-year moratorium on production of new nuclear warheads.
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The president remains committed to reducing and eventually eliminating nuclear weapons, but until there is some assured means of verifying other countries have done the same, the nation is stuck maintaining a potent arsenal to deter attacks.
Yet on May 23rd, Mr Bush put forward the case for substantially reducing America's stockpile of nuclear weapons.
The new strategy will emphasize reducing reliance on the role of nuclear weapons in deterrence, and will commit to accelerating the deployment of non-nuclear deterrent capabilities, such as missile defenses and the forward deployment of U.S. forces to trouble spots.
Officials considered detailing their goals for the next round of arms talks with Russia, including controls on battlefield tactical nuclear weapons, dismantling mothballed warheads and reducing total deployments to 1, 000 warheads a side, down from the 1, 550 limit in the new treaty.
This is one part of a broader, comprehensive agenda that the United States is pursuing -- including reducing our nuclear arsenal and stopping the spread of nuclear weapons -- an agenda that will bring us closer to our ultimate goal of a world without nuclear weapons.
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Except for a glancing reference to nuclear weapons as "expensive relics of dead conflicts" and a vague statement about reducing them, Bush has discussed his intentions of building up the military, tearing up the ABM treaty and putting up the National Missile Defense system.
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Under the Moscow Treaty, signed in 2002, the U.S. has committed to reducing its strategic nuclear arsenal by two-thirds -- to between 1, 700 and 2, 200 deployed nuclear weapons from about 10, 000 at the height of the Cold War.
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