Check out “this Beeb story”:http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/8/newsid_3283000/3283817.stm from back in the day when the INF was signed as well as this “ACA Factsheet”:http://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/INFtreaty and “the Inventory”:http://cns.miis.edu/inventory/pdfs/inf.pdf on the INF.
Here is a neat video on INF verification:
Also, check out Margaret Thatcher’s comments on a “nuclear-free Europe”:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQMo_kRu_mc. And finally, here is a neat video on “the Pershings”:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJt7KCB3Jro and a Russian video on “the Spider ^ru^”:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM2v2JYjlco in all of their pre-INF glory.
Pretty interesting stuff It’s useful to look at history. Provides perspective.
Of course they would blow them up as opposed to dismantling them or using them for long term document storage.
A very touching movie!
It’s so funny to see and hear the surprise of Westerners discovering that the Soviet Union was actually eager for peace!
Most Westerners were born and raised into an intensive demonization campaign against the Soviet Union. Possibly more effort was spent on this campaign than on landing a man on the Moon. Having never heard another viewpoint many people thought it’s an established fact that Soviets are devils.
It’s time for people to open their minds and read the history books again, a little more critically.