I have stated on this forum before that the Cold War surrender was merely a well-orchestrated ploy to get badly needed western capital to rebuild the communist totalitarain Soviet Union. I fault Bush Sr. for not achieving any US security during the surrender process by getting their nuclear weapons and delivery systems (rockets, lauchers, subs). Now their expertise and weapons are spread across the world and are for sale to any and all terrorist organizations.
Please. There wasn't any surrender. The Soviet Union collapsed the Warsaw Pact collapsed, but Russia as a nation did not collapse. It still retained its nuclear deterrent. Nobody, not even the US, was going to take those nuclear weapons away from Kremlin control. Both sides knew that they had to be an agreement to reduce the number of standing forces and nuclear weapons. These have been reduced over the years to fairly acceptable levels via the various treaties.