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mr. secretary-general, theng that we could develop strategic defense initiative in a laboratory, and we could eliminate all of your nuclear weapons? gorbachev said yes, absolutely. he is trying to convince ronald reagan fair. he is pushing hard to make him realize this is a historic opportunity. we will never have a soviet leader who comes after gorbachev to strike a deal. whether reagan did at that time realize this was a major knife at the throat of the soviet union and gorbachev, and that in fact this was a central core of issues to and communism in the soviet union. guillaume: i agree with that, but it is easy to face ussrwards, after the disappeared in 1991. there was agenda in the reagan administration as we were saying to try to beat them with expenses. have to remember that the soviet union at the time was extremely -- david: competence. guillaume: they had the double than thenal armaments americans. they had almost double the nuclear weapons. even though it does not make a real difference. david: you could destroy the world six times over instead of four times over. guillaume: absolutely. i think there was a sense of trying to over