The World - News from March 11, 1986
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher told Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev that it was unacceptable for the Kremlin to insist on a freeze on British nuclear arms as a condition for removing U.S. and Soviet intermediate-range nuclear weapons from Europe. Thatcher told Gorbachev in a letter delivered in Moscow that for the foreseeable future, nuclear weapons as a deterrent will continue to make an essential contribution to peace and stability. She was replying to Gorbachev’s call for eliminating all nuclear weapons by the year 2000.
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