...strengthening stability and reducing the risk of conflict. They reaffirmed their solemn conviction that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought, their determination to prevent any war between the Soviet Union and the United States, whether nuclear...

...measure at the 1985 Reagan-Gorbachev summit. The joint statement issued by the two leaders affirmed "that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought." This wording had implications for SDI (with its essentially war-fighting rationale) and was seen by...

...Summit meeting he associated himself with a final communique that made the straightforward assertion that "a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought." These attitudes were translated into official strategic doctrine in 299 various ways during the 1970s....

...that distinction. This insight was expressed with exceptional clarity by President Reagan when he said that "a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought." And yet both superpowers' policies rely on thinking that is mired in the pre-nuclear past. Each strives...

...and a comprehensive test ban as one of the basic objectives in the field of disarmament, Convinced that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought, Welcoming the improved relationship between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United...

...was rather to "prevail" in such a war. In 1984 President Reagan moderated his own language to declare that "a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought." While counterforce principles may seek to restrain the destructiveness of nuclear weapons, they may...

...reject the idea of waging nuclear war under any circumstances; it has become a summit ritual to reaffirm that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought. The risk of a 'nuclear winter' may be less discussed than four years ago but Chernobyl continues to...

...Gorbachev who took the initiative in proposing inclusion in the joint statement that the two sides "agreed that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought," as well as reaffirming that they would "not seek to achieve military superiority."44 By the mid-1980s...

...Geneva, the governments also reaffirmed their determination to prevent the outbreak of war, insisting that "a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought." They promised not to seek military superiority. More concretely, the communique called for early progress...

...power. Future 2: Eliminate the Nuclear Threat; Compete Otherwise By 2010 the US and USSR, realizing that a nuclear war "cannot be won and must never be fought," have taken far-reaching steps to remove that danger. They will have drastically cut their nuclear arsenals,...