lared as early as February 1986, manifested itself in many ways during the next five years, in deeds as well as words, including policies reflecting a drastically reduced Soviet perception of the Western threat and actions to reduce the Western perception of a Soviet threat. In 1986, for example, Gorbachev made clear his readiness to ban all nuclear weapons. In 1987, he signed the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty, eliminating not only the Soviet and U.S. missiles deployed since the late
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