Former U.S. President George H. W. Bush, who as American leader declared the end of the Cold War with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1980s and ushered in an era of rapprochement between the superpowers, died on Friday night, his office said. He was 94.George H. W. Bush, the 41st U.S. president and father of the 43rd President George W. Bush, signed with Gorbachev the first nuclear arms reduction treaty with the Soviet Union in July 1991 before the Communist state's collapse at the end of the year.Born in Massachusetts, George H. W. Bush joined the U.S. Navy when he was 18 and surviv…READ FULL ARTICLE