The End of the Cold War - The in F Treaty

The in f treaty, a treaty which banned this class of missile that was seen by both sides as being inherently destabilizing. The russians immediately put the s 20 missile units on higher alert got em ready to launch a nuclear we're ready to go to war, nuclear war. When the c i a briefed ronald regan on this a year later, a allegedly, he went pale, he gets physically sick. They couldn't actually believe that we were going to launch a first strike and tha c i a said, ya, they believed it. And he said, then we have to make sure this never happens again. That's what europe lived under theever present threat