The American Reporter: How Vermonters Helped End the Cold War

DUMMERSTON, Vt. -- Twenty-five years ago this month, something else was on the annual town meeting warrants in Vermont besides school budgets and highways: stopping the spread of nuclear weapons.

An article on the warrant in 192 towns called on Vermont's congressional delegation to urge President Reagan to propose to the Soviet Union a mutual freeze on the testing, production and deployment of new nuclear weapons. It passed in all but 32 of them.