... The Reagan administration was skeptical of earlier US arms control policies, but as it rebuilt US defenses, the administration also conducted nuclear arms negotiations, which came to a temporary halt after the Soviet walkout toward the end of 1983. This chapter discusses SDI and the Soviet...

... minister as a sign Gorbachev intended to conduct his own international policy. It describes Gorbachev’s first meeting with Reagan at the 1985 Geneva summit. The Soviet military used a seemingly forthcoming January 1986 arms control proposal to try to delay nuclear reductions. The second half of the chapter...

... US-Soviet relations stagnated after the 1985 Geneva summit because of Gorbachev’s preoccupation with domestic developments such as Chernobyl and because of events in the murky world of US-Soviet espionage. At Reykjavik an unprecedented agreement to eliminate all nuclear weapons fell through...