Photograph of U.S. President, George H.W. Bush, and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, signing the START I Agreement for the mutual elimination of the two countries’ strategic nuclear weapons, on July 31, 1991. Courtesy of the George Bush Presidential Library.
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