What the records say
- When
- 11 Oct 1986 – 12 Oct 1986
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 64.15° N, 21.91° W
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Reykjavík Summit.
Summary
Cold War: Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Reykjavík, Iceland, to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate missile arsenals in Europe, which end in failure.
Reykjavík Summit
Unsuccessful 1986 Soviet-American diplomatic summit
The Reykjavík Summit was a summit meeting between U.S. president Ronald Reagan and Soviet general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, held in Reykjavík, Iceland, on 11–12 October 1986. The talks collapsed at the last minute, but the progress that had been achieved eventually resulted in the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union.
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