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Cold War: National Security Planning Group minutes (1715Z) ("Review of United States Arms Control Positions") (NSPG 0165) [INF basically agreed; Reagan wants a START agreement before he leaves office, but only if it is a good one; Shultz declines to take a view "in a group like this" ... it will leak; President reading about Armageddon] [declassified Dec 2005]

Document type: Declassified documents
Venue: White House
Source: Reagan Library (NSPG Meetings Box 5)
Editorial comments:

1315-1415 EST = 1717-1815 GMT.

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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 12pp
Themes: Foreign policy (USA), Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), Foreign policy - theory and process, Defence (general), Defence (arms control), Science & technology