Search | Wilson Center Digital Archive

Switch to Visualization

Helmut Kohl Collection Nuclear weapons--Soviet Union Clear All

Related Resources

Placeholder image for when a places image is not available

Western Europe

Germany

Mikhail Gorbachev, 1986

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich

1931- 2022

Soviet soldier taking a photograph of another soldier in Red Square, Moscow, 1959

Eastern Europe

Soviet Union

The Kremlin, Russia

Eastern Europe

Russia

Photograph of Helmut Kohl, 1982.

Kohl, Helmut

1930- 2017

Erich Honecker, 1976.

Honecker, Erich Ernst Paul

1912- 1994

Placeholder image for when a portrait image is not available

Yeltsin, Boris

1931- 2007

Placeholder image for when a portrait image is not available

Kravchuk, Leonid Makarovych

1934- 2022

Placeholder image for when a portrait image is not available

Hartmann, Peter

1935-

Placeholder image for when a places image is not available

Eastern Europe

Belarus

Ukrainian Motherland Monument, Kyiv

Eastern Europe

Ukraine

Photograph of Gorbachev-Bush summit at Malta, 1989

End of the Cold War

Soviet Nuclear History

Ukrainian Nuclear History

Placeholder image for when a places image is not available

Central Asia

Kazakhstan

Results:

1 - 4 of 4

Display:

Sort By:

Documents

January 16, 1992	Conversation between the Head of the Chancellor’s Office, Federal Minister Friedrich Bohl, and Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev, 15 January 1992, 13.00 Hours Bohl and Kozyrev talk through the potential proliferation of nuclear and chemical weapons after the demise of the Soviet Union. Moreover, they consult on the reduction of tactical and strategic nuclear weapons.
December 23, 1991	Conversation between the Head of the Chancellor’s Office, Federal Minister Bohl, and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Zlenko on 21 December 1991, 9.00 - 10.00 Hours Bohl and Zlenko analyze the situation in the immediate aftermath of the Soviet Union's formal dissolution. They disuss the fate of the remaining nuclear weapons and armaments in Ukraine and the prospects for their dismantlement. They also review plans for the withdrawal of "Soviet" soldiers from Germany and their return to Ukraine.
November 25, 1991	The Chancellor's [Helmut Kohl's] Meeting with Russian President Yeltsin on Thursday, 21 November 1991 Kohl and Yeltsin discuss Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian debt and finance issues, the question of Volga-Germans and the release of Honecker from the Chilean embassy.
July 15, 1991	Memorandum of Conversation: Meeting with Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of Germany on July 15, 1991 Bush, Kohl, and others discuss relations with France and France's views of NATO, talks between the US and the USSR over the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I), safeguarding the Brazilian rainforest, the Uruguay Round of the GATT, support for economic reforms in the Soviet Union, and US-German relations.