The 39th US president passed away in his home in Georgia on Sunday
Former US president and Nobel Prize winner Jimmy Carter passed away at the age of 100 in his home in Plains, Georgia on Sunday, his son James E. Carter III has said.
Last year, the Carter Center revealed that the 39th president was fighting an aggressive form of melanoma skin cancer. He spent his last years at home under hospice care.
Born on October 1, 1924, in Plains, Carter graduated from a naval academy and served as an engineer on a submarine. He was elected governor of Georgia in 1971 and eventually served as president from 1977 to 1981.
During his term in office, Carter initially sought to continue the policy of detente with the Soviet Union, aiming to ease the geopolitical tensions of the Cold War. In June 1979, he and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev signed the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II (SALT II) agreement, which sought to curtail the arms race between the two superpowers. However, the treaty faced obstacles in the US Senate and was never ratified, largely due to escalating tensions following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979.
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