“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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

It was Ms. Massie who taught Mr. Reagan the Russian proverb “Doveryai no proveryai” (“Trust but verify”), which he uttered to Mr. Gorbachev when they met in Reykjavik, Iceland, in October ...

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.

View of a clip of President Reagan's famous 1987 Berlin Wall speech in which he asks Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall." Video courtesy of Reagan Presidential Library.