The vision and its implications for disarmament policy
Year: 2016

When Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev discussed the elimination of nuclear weapons in Reykjavik, they seemed to take the consent of the other NWS for granted. Or they assumed that any objections would be overruled: others simply had to follow the lead of the two big ones. No reference is made to other NWS in the US and Soviet memoranda of conversation, or in the accounts of the discussions by Reagan, Shultz, Gorbachev and Dobrynin. This speaks to a fundamental feature of the Cold War: without