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In October 1986, U.S. President Reagan and Soviet President Gorbachev met in
Reykjavik, Iceland to discuss nuclear arms control. Though this summit resulted
in no formal agreements, the United States and the Soviet Union discussed
reducing their strategic nuclear weapons by half over a five-year period and
then eliminating all offensive nuclear weapons by 1997. Some issues, such as
the fate of European shorter-range nuclear missiles, were left unresolved.
In March 1987, Soviet President Gorbachev proposed elimination of European short
and intermediate range missiles. Later, NATO and West Germany supported
Gorbachev's proposal, with some changes. The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces
(INF) Treaty was signed later that year (see December
1987).
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