..."limited" and "all-out" nuclear conflict. Leaders of both superpowers have gone on record declaring that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought. It hasn't always been that way. Early in his first presidential term, Ronald Reagan grabbed news headlines...

...finally, the Reagan-Gorbachev summit of 1985 in Geneva which produced a joint communiqué declaring that 'a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought'. Part of the process of nuclear disarmament and arms control will be touched upon in the subsequent...

...as well as between the heads of other agencies. The joint statement also adopted Reagan's statement that "a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought." A related departure from the US government's internal planning premises was the phrase that the superpowers...

...another element was included in the joint statement under the rubric of "security." The two sides "agreed that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought." Moreover, "Recognizing that any conflict between the USSR and the US could have catastrophic consequences,...

...would continue. In this context it recalled the oftcited statement of the 1986 Reykjavik summit meeting that 'a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought'. 4 2. It welcomed the fact that 11 states had acceded to the NPT since 1985. 2 See the wording in a...

...meeting of the 1nternational Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. ln it, Reagan said he believed that "a nuclear war cannot be won, and must never be fought." The president also used this line in his weekly radio address on 17 April 1982 as a way to reassure...

...capabilities do not imply that we seek the ability to fight a nuclear war. I have repeatedly emphasized that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought. But we must deter an adversary who has a very different strategic outlook from our own — an outlook...

...He had also noticed Reagan's declarations to the UN General Assembly and the Japanese Diet in 1983 that "a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought," and he agreed completely. As early as September, Gorbachev had suggested to Reagan that such statements...

...nuclear disarmament through gradual but radical reduction in their nuclear arms. Both sides agreed that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought. They also recognized that a US-Soviet nuclear war would have catastrophic consequences for the entire...

...post-Cold War period. The common understanding reached by Reagan and Gorbachev in Geneva in November 1985 that "a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought" reflected the recognition by both parties that they were motivated by the desire to solve a common...