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Moro, Aldo 88
Moscow summit (1988) 292, 296–300, 301
Mulroney, Brian 193, 207
Murphy, George 158
mutual acquaintance, process of (US and
USSR) 22, 143, 162–3, 294, 500
mutually assured destruction (MAD) 16,
18, 230, 311
Najibullah, Mohammad 330–5, 337, 375,
397–8, 432
Nakasone, Yasuhiro 124
Namibia 391, 435
Napolitano, Giorgio 97
national question in the USSR 371, 376–7,
402, 453–4, 457 see also Estonia;
Georgia; Latvia; Lithuania
National Security Advisor see Allen,
Richard; Carlucci, Frank; Clark,
William; McFarlane, Robert;
Poindexter, John; Powell, Colin;
Scowcroft, Brent
National Security Council (US) 18, 21, 35,
37, 40, 41, 49, 69, 109, 139, 144, 146,
148, 174, 183, 190, 192, 197–8, 235,
240, 364, 417, 423
National Security Decision Directive
(No. 75) 21–2
National Security Decision Directive
(No. 210) 172
National Union of Mineworkers 100, 112
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty
Organization) 1, 8, 25, 84–8, 90, 91
command post exercise (Able Archer
83) (1983) 2, 50–1
and de Gaulle 86, 90
and deployment of Pershing-2 and
Tomahawk missiles 84–5
expansion eastwards 435, 499
Germany’s membership question 434,
437, 438, 440, 443
and nuclear disarmament 445
and nuclear war 25–6
Nazi–Soviet Pact (1939) 452, 462
Németh, Miklós 367, 404
New York Times 158
New Zealand 92
Nicaragua 98, 127, 177, 235, 297, 376, 397,
421, 432
Nicholson, Major, shooting of (1985) 138
Nitze, Paul 35, 114, 170, 171, 174, 192,
215, 230, 282
Nixon, Richard 2, 17, 147, 237–8, 343,
363–4, 382
Nofziger, Lyn 210
non-aligned movement 75, 202
North, Oliver 235, 243
North Atlantic Treaty Organization see
NATO
North Korea 297
Novosti 263
nuclear disarmament
advantages and savings 368
Akhromeev’s January 1986 proposal
and Gorbachëv’s assent 164–7,
204
and Bush 366, 368–9, 374, 404, 445,
486, 493
and Geneva summit (1985) 122–3,
155, 156–8
and Gorbachëv 3, 5, 126, 127, 141,
143–4, 146–7, 148–9, 151, 156–7,
161, 163–4, 166–71, 177, 179–81,
186–7, 190, 206–7, 213–17,
282–4, 368, 386, 436
Gorbachëv’s declaration for global
elimination by 2000 and reaction
to 167–75
inspections 282
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces
Tr e at y see Intermediate-Range
Nuclear Forces Treaty
and Malta summit (1989) 418, 421
and Politburo Arms Limitation
Commission (Big Five) 99,
134–5, 166, 237, 241, 277, 284,
296, 346, 366, 372–3, 418, 436–7,
439, 494, 609
and Reagan 3, 4, 5, 15–16, 18, 20–1,
34, 109, 114, 115, 138, 141,
152–3, 156–7, 158, 161, 172, 174,
188–9, 228, 244, 296, 496, 497–8