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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (256983)7/7/2008 7:46:32 AM
From: Brumar89  Respond to of 794016
 
<Gorby realized he couldn't win an arms race with the US. Reagan's willingness to wage an arms race was a necessary component of him reaching that realization.> The arms race had been won by the USA decades before that.

Maybe, but they had to realize they were beat.