How did Reagan deal the Soviet Union?

The Reagan administration’s willingness to engage in a strategy of verbal confrontation with the Soviet Union created a great deal of unease among Europe’s American allies. Further problems surrounded the negotiation of an Intermediate Nuclear Force or the INF Treaty. Many in Europe and US preferred a new arms control agreement over new weapons resulting in a dual track strategy being agreed upon. Negotiations broke off and did not begin until Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the Soviet Union. Gorbachev embraced the “zero option” proposed by Reagan in which all intermediate nuclear weapons would be removed from Europe by both sides. An INF treaty was signed. Reagan and Gorbachev became regular partners at summit conferences. Nature of meetings and outcomes were quite varied, ranging from working session with no formal agenda to ones characterized by serious arms control negotiations. Their most controversial second summit meeting was held in Reykjavik, Iceland.

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