The end of the cold war

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…Then, on July 31, 1991, the United States reached its last major arms agreement with the Soviet Union when Presidents Bush and Gorbachev signed the long-negotiated Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty in Moscow, which included cuts of 30 to 40 percent in to both sides. They also agreed to eliminate all multiple-warhead missiles by the year 2003. Together, these agreements would reduce the number of nuclear warheads by two-thirds, from around 21,000 to approximately 6500. This being done, the cold war was concluded