Sentences with phrase «arms control agreements in»

He detailed how the crisis propelled the United States and the Soviet Union into a limited ban on nuclear testing and then to a series of arms control agreements in ensuing years.

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«The letter, from some of the world's most knowledgeable experts in the fields of nuclear weapons and arms control, arrives as Mr. Obama is lobbying Congress, the American public and the nation's allies to support the agreement,» William J. Broad wrote in an article in the New York Times.

David Victor, one of the world's leading energy experts, notes: «With a deal this complicated and difficult, the fewer countries you need to reach an agreement, the better the chances are... A well - managed disaster [at Copenhagen] could be as constructive as the collapse of the 1986 Reykjavik summit between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, which broke down in the final hours yet helped pave the way for later arms control.»