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Geneva, Reykjavik, Washington, and Moscow, 1985-8

Geneva, Reykjavik, Washington, and Moscow, 1985-8
Geneva, Reykjavik, Washington, and Moscow, 1985-8
Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev ushered in a new era for Soviet-American relations at four summits in 1985–8. Reagan’s efforts to re-engage the USSR led to the Geneva summit, where the two leaders ignited a spark of mutual trust. At Reykjavik their shared abhorrence of nuclear weapons brought them close to a radical arms reduction agreement. Although they pulled back from the brink in 1986, at the Washington summit the following year they signed the INF treaty, which not only addressed the issue of Soviet SS-20s but also abolished a whole category of nuclear weapons for the first time in the Cold War. Conservatives in the Reagan administration blocked conclusion of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) at the 1988 Moscow summit, but the president’s repudiation there of his ‘evil empire’ rhetoric was a turning point in transcending the ideological divide.
151-179
Oxford University Press
Hunt, Jonathan
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Reynolds, David
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Spohr, Kristina
Reynolds, David
Hunt, Jonathan
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Reynolds, David
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Spohr, Kristina
Reynolds, David

Hunt, Jonathan and Reynolds, David (2016) Geneva, Reykjavik, Washington, and Moscow, 1985-8. In, Spohr, Kristina and Reynolds, David (eds.) Transcending the Cold War: Summits, Statecraft, and the Dissolution of Bipolarity in Europe, 1970–1990. Oxford, GB. Oxford University Press, pp. 151-179. (doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198727507.003.0007).

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Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev ushered in a new era for Soviet-American relations at four summits in 1985–8. Reagan’s efforts to re-engage the USSR led to the Geneva summit, where the two leaders ignited a spark of mutual trust. At Reykjavik their shared abhorrence of nuclear weapons brought them close to a radical arms reduction agreement. Although they pulled back from the brink in 1986, at the Washington summit the following year they signed the INF treaty, which not only addressed the issue of Soviet SS-20s but also abolished a whole category of nuclear weapons for the first time in the Cold War. Conservatives in the Reagan administration blocked conclusion of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) at the 1988 Moscow summit, but the president’s repudiation there of his ‘evil empire’ rhetoric was a turning point in transcending the ideological divide.

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Accepted/In Press date: 15 August 2016
Published date: September 2016
Organisations: History

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Local EPrints ID: 399436
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/399436
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Date deposited: 16 Aug 2016 14:34
Last modified: 12 Sep 2024 17:03

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Author: Jonathan Hunt
Author: David Reynolds
Editor: Kristina Spohr
Editor: David Reynolds

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