Over a million people march and gather at New York City’s Central Park demanding nuclear disarmament and an end to the Cold War arms race: making it the largest disarmament rally in American history. The cold war and the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union had been going on since World War II, and the Cold War felt particularly dangerous in the early 1980s. especially since President Ronald Reagan, a staunch proponent of building up America’s nuclear arsenal and vehemently opposed the idea of disarmament treaties, appeared to prefer nuclear war to nuclear disarmament. More
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