This week’s document from #SPIES:
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During the break-up of the Soviet Union 1989-1991, control of Soviet nuclear weapons became a “life and death” issue for president George H.W. Bush. His policy was to give the collapsing USSR a "soft landing."
The reason was clear: if the… pic.twitter.com/1OY00BXaNi