What was significant about the Reykjavik Summit?

The 1986 Reykjavik Summit brought U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev close to an agreement to eliminate their nuclear arsenals. Although they did not reach a final arms-control agreement at the summit, their talks helped build trust and paved the way for the INF Treaty the following year. Its significance was therefore a turning point in diplomatic relations, not the immediate dismantling of nuclear weapons.

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