Leonid Ilyich BrezhnevJune 1982
Announces through a message to the United Nations that the Soviet Union will not be the first to use nuclear weapons.
Russia · Warfare / United Nations. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Announces through a message to the United Nations that the Soviet Union will not be the first to use nuclear weapons.
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