By Rebecca Johnson LONDON - Twenty-five years ago, on December 8, presidents Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. This historic agreement eliminated a modern class of land-based "theater" weapons - the SS20s, cruise and Pershing missiles - that had been brought into Europe in the early 1980s. The breakthrough surprised most mainstream military and political analysts, but was hailed by European peace activists whose efforts to achieve this outcome had been derided by experts right up to the Reykjavik Summit between Reagan and Gorbachev in October 1986....
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