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Reykjavik Summit concludes without final arms control agreement

The two-day Reykjavik summit between President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev ended without a signed pact after talks produced sweeping but ultimately unresolved proposals for deep nuclear arms reductions and limits on strategic defense research.

Though the summit failed to produce a treaty, its ambitious proposals narrowed the scope for future negotiation and helped set the stage for later arms-control breakthroughs, including the INF negotiations and subsequent agreements.

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