The New Dark Age

12 April 2013 — National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 422

Agreement against German Unification • Encouragement on Economic Reform • Argument over Nuclear Abolition

Edited by Svetlana Savranskaya and Tom Blanton

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Washington, D.C., April 12, 2013 — Margaret Thatcher, the former British prime minister who passed away this week, built a surprising mutual-admiration relationship with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1980s — including behind-the-scenes agreement against the reunification of Germany, and profound disagreement about nuclear abolition — according to translated Soviet records of key meetings between the two leaders, posted online today for the first time by the National Security Archive at George Washington University (www.nsarchive.org).

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