LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Failure of disarmament talks

Genre

News report; Speech

TX Date

Oct 1986

Year of production

1986

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Duration

00:00:35

Description

Dave Loyn reports from Reykjavik, summarising the disarmament summit and its failure. Includes speech by US President Ronald Reagan, who says that he will not submit to the delay of SDI deployment, and speech by General Secretary of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, accusing Reagan of approaching the talks with no new ideas.

Contributors

Dave Loyn; Ronald Reagan; Mikhail Gorbachev

Keywords

USA; Peace; Human rights; USSR; International relations; Defence; Nuclear weapons; Diplomacy; Nuclear disarmament; Arms race; Defence policy; Nuclear warfare; Summits (meetings); Iceland; East West relations; Strategic Defense Initiative

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