Implications of the Reykjavik Summit on Its Twentieth Anniversary: Conference Report

In October 1986 in Reykjavik, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev agreed on the need to eliminate nuclear weapons-a historic agreement that ultimately led to the end of the cold war. Since that time, the nature of the nuclear threat in the world has changed, but the twenty-year-old lessons of Reykjavik may well help us achieve the goal of a modern world free of nuclear weapons.

Drawn from presentations at the Hoover Institution's conference on the twentieth anniversary of the Reykjavik summit,…