Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20170905:01:47:00
>> the soviet leader mikhail gorbachev made what looks like a dramatic proposal, a plan to eliminate all nuclear weapons by the year 2000. >> the american side was surprised and upstaged by gorbachev's sweeping proposals. >> it is a bid for public opinion and, of course, the seriousness of it would have been highlighted if it had been tabled first in geneva. >> by offering his timetable for the elimination of nuclear weapons, mikhail gorbachev has clearly challenged president reagan, but by holding to their condition that space weapons be banned, the russians have shown that the major obstacle...