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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.

Reykjavik Summit concludes without final arms control agreement

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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