Footage has emerged from a diplomatic visit made by Joe Biden to the USSR in 1979, in which he praised the then-Soviet leadership for their approach to nuclear arms reductions talks.
Speaking to news reporters at the airport in Moscow, a younger Biden, then only the junior senator from Delaware, thanked his hosts and set out a vision for the future of relations between the two countries around nuclear disarmament. His visit coincided with the drafting of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) II agreement, which halted the development of long-range nuclear missiles.
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