In 1985, Reagan and Gorbachev affirmed that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought, highlighting the futility of an arms race.
Despite the challenges, arms control negotiations have successfully decreased the number of nuclear weapons held by the US and Russia from 60,000 to approximately 11,000.
The New Start treaty, signed in 2010, limits each country to 1,550 deployed nuclear weapons, a significant reduction from earlier totals.
However, the withdrawal of the US from the ABM treaty in 2002 signified challenges in maintaining arms control agreements into the future.
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