In 1987, President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, which

The INF Treaty required the United States and the Soviet Union to eliminate an entire class of intermediate-range nuclear missiles. This arms reduction helped ease tensions and improve relations between the two countries, so the correct choice is “improved US-Soviet relations through the reduction of arms.”

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