️ Reagan Apparently Seriously Considered Soviet Proposal for Total Nuclear Disarmament
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In the small house of Höfdi near Reykjavik, on October 11, 1986, one of the most unusual meetings in the history of the Cold War began. American President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev gathered not for a customary ceremony, but for talks that gradually led to the previously unthinkable idea of eliminating nuclear arsenals. The meeting was intended as a brief attempt to move the negotiations forward after the first meeting bet…
️ Reagan apparently seriously considered Soviet proposal for total nuclear disarmament
In January 1986, when Gorbachev called Reagan’s 1982 bluff on a nuclear-free world at the Reykjavik summit, the US president seriously considered his Soviet counterpart’s position, worrying that “we’d be hard put to explain how we could turn...
Forty years ago, the world became almost nuclear-free - the Reagan-Gorbachev summit set a new course for history.
Tomorrow, Sunday, marks forty years since the beginning of the summit in Höfði, when US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev came to the country to discuss disarmament issues between the superpowers.
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