- Sergei Akhromeev’s poster (January 1986) offering his plan for the stage-by-
stage global elimination of all nuclear weapons (Kataev Papers, Hoover
Institution Archives) - Tête-à-tête discussion between Gorbachëv and Reagan: Reykjavik,
11 October 1986 (Images Gro/REX Shutterstock)
1 9. Reykjavik summit talks around the table, 11 October 1986 (Images Gro/
REX Shutterstock) - Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan: 15 November 1986, Camp David
(By courtesy of the Reagan Library) - G7 leaders in Venice, June 1987 (Photo by Daniel SIMON/Gamma-Rapho
via Getty Images) - Reagan beside the Brandenburg Gate, June 1987 (MIKE SARGENT/AFP/
Getty Images) - Helmut Kohl and François Mitterrand at their joint press conference in
1985 (JOEL ROBINE/AFP/GettyImages) - Soviet diagram of the Krasnoyarsk anti-ballistic missile station (Kataev
Papers, Hoover Institution Archives) - 1980s Soviet map of US medium- and short-range nuclear-weapons
operational bases and facilities sites in the US and Western Europe
(Kataev Papers, Hoover Institution Archives) - Vice President George Bush escorting General Secretary Gorbachëv:
Washington, December 1987 (Images Gro/REX Shutterstock) - Reagan and Gorbachëv signing the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces
Treaty: Washington, December 1987 (Photo by Dirck Halstead/The LIFE
Images Collection/Getty Images) - Reagan gives a speech at Moscow State University in June 1987 beneath the
incongruous image of Vladimir Lenin, founder of the USSR (Photo by
Dirck Halstead/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images) - Shultz and Shevardnadze: White House Rose Garden, September 1988
(Photo by Diana Walker//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images) - President George Bush and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachëv at the
Malta summit of December 1989 (Photo by Dirck Halstead/The LIFE
Images Collection/Getty Images) - G7 leaders in Houston, June 1990 (Photo by Dan Ford Connolly/The LIFE
Images Collection/Getty Images)
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