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Events on Sunday 12 October 1986 1
1986Reykjavik SummitReagan and Gorbachev discuss nuclear arms reductionUS President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev met in Reykjavik, Iceland to negotiate deep cuts to nuclear arsenals. The talks collapsed over disagreement on the Strategic Defense Initiative but laid groundwork for the 1987 INF Treaty. Observers later credited the summit with reshaping the endgame of the Cold War.