“Ronald Reagan didn’t whisper to Gorbachev, ‘Give me some flexibility.’ He walked out of Iceland.” What’s interesting here is that Reagan’s decision not to give up on SDI was ...

An author of books on Russia who spoke the language, she had no diplomatic experience but formed an unlikely bond with the ...

The phrase became part of the Cold War lexicon. Reagan used it with Gorbachev at their summit in Iceland, and “Trust but verify” took hold as a baseline negotiating principle during arms ...

Former Soviet officials insist that Gorbachev's decisions to withdraw Soviet forces from Afghanistan and to end the arms race were made despite the Reagan buildup and SDI. In 1983 Gorbachev ...

Few have looked beyond the political necessities of the moment and discerned the necessary interplay between Reagan and Gorbachev that ended the Cold War. Historian Robert Service is one of the few.

Set during the most dangerous point of the Cold War, "political enemies Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Iceland ...

About her enemies, from Don Regan, Reagan’s chief of staff, to Raisa Gorbachev, she sits and broods, remembering each slight and insult (Regan unsubtly mocks her running the president’s ...