The Reykjavik Summit of 1986 is the event at which then-president, Mr. Ronald Reagan sat down with the Soviet Union's Mikhael Gorbachev to discuss ballistic missile usage. Although the talks fell apart at the last minute, certain agreements were still reached, promoting future changes regarding stances on and uses of nuclear weapons.
The home in which this meeting took place, pictured below, is named Höfði
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| Reagan and Gorbachev met here in 1986 for The Reykjavik Summit |
Mr. Wikipedia states,
Despite the unexpected proximity to the potential elimination of all nuclear weapons, the meeting adjourned with no agreement; however, both sides discovered the extent of the concessions the other side was willing to make.[3] Human rights became a subject of productive discussion for the first time. An agreement by Gorbachev to on-site inspections, a continuing American demand which had not been achieved in the Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1963 or the ABM and SALT I pacts of 1972, constituted a significant step forward, and foreshadowed Russian openness to such testing in future talks.Despite its apparent failure, participants and observers have referred to the summit as an enormous breakthrough which eventually facilitated the INF Treaty (Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty), signed in Washington on December 8, 1987.
The US and Russia putting Iceland on the map, once again.
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