At the first Presidential debate on Monday night, Republican candidate stressed the importance of nuclear proliferation as an issue that will face the next President of the United States. This is not the first time the nuclear issue has come up during the 2016 campaign—but the campaign trail is far from the only time he’s spoken out on the topic. In fact, in the mid-1980s, as the Soviet Union and the United States struggled to come to an agreement on nuclear policy, with the never-ratified Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II agreement nearing its expiration, someone surprising weighed in on the problem: Donald Trump, who told the press that he would do a good job as the U.S.