Mr. Gorbachev, not to be outdone, proposed the elimination of all strategic nuclear weapons, a proposal that, to the consternation of his aides, Mr. Reagan accepted.
Manley expressed UK concerns about French attitudes, suggesting Paris has not "come through the thought process" on eliminating nuclear weapons and worries about proposals for multilateral disarmament.
Along with the proposal for a new global nuclear weapons treaty, the Indian statement renewed other proposals for limiting the nuclear arsenals of India and Pakistan, and for reducing the threat of their being used.
Last week, he stood on the House floor to oppose a proposal on nuclear weapons.
This bargain is now enshrined in the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which promotes nuclear power even as it discourages nuclear weapons.... Eisenhower needed some proposal to temper his growing reputation as a reckless nuclear hawk.
The group are also keen on the idea of a country free of nuclear weapons – a slightly more realistic proposal, as Scottish ministers have said the UK's nuclear submarines currently based at Scotland's Faslane naval facility will be relocated if the country becomes independent.
If Brown really is proposing an international negotiation to reduce nuclear weapons and delivery systems then the proposal needs to be spelt out, and much more needs to be on the table than a solitary sub.
The first has failed, as lawmakers opposed to the Energy Department's nuclear weapons program blocked consideration of the proposal.
It calls for a cutoff in the production of new materials for nuclear weapons; President Bush issued a similar proposal after the revelations that Pakistan's nuclear scientist, Abdul Qadeer Khan, had spread such technology around the world.
During the exchange of proposals, the leaders agreed that nuclear weapons must be eliminated, and they nearly produced an agreement to eliminate the Soviet and American nuclear weapons stockpiles by 2000.
