Plan was floated to wipe Soviet debt in exchange for nuclear disarmament, files show

Published time: 29 Dec, 2017 10:22 Britain was urged to write off billions of dollars of Soviet debt in return for nuclear disarmament, declassified documents show. The 1991 plan was designed to stop nukes falling into the wrong hands after the USSR collapsed. Then-British Prime Minister John Major received a letter from Jacques Attali, head […]