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Article: Fed: Signs of a new arms race emerging: Gorbachev
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- July 21, 2006
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AAP General News (Australia)
07-21-2006
Fed: Signs of a new arms race emerging: Gorbachev
BRISBANE, July 21 AAP - Signs of a new arms race are emerging around the world, with
nuclear weapons again being considered as a first strike weapon, former Soviet president
Mikhail Gorbachev has warned.
Mr Gorbachev, whose reforms in the late 1980s helped end the Cold War, today called
for the destruction of all nuclear weapons.
He warned that to begin a new arms race was "irresponsible" and "totally wrong".
"We still have a lot of nuclear weapons in the world and we need to get rid of those
weapons," Mr Gorbachev told journalists through an interpreter in Brisbane.
"In 1985, (former US) ...