The Brink Of War

What really happened during the extraordinary 48 hours when Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev came face-to-face at the height of the Cold War, with the world standing on the brink of nuclear showdown?

In October 1986, as tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union pushed the world to a dangerous cliff, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrived in Reykjavik, Iceland, for what was expected to be an empty grip-and-grin session. Instead, over that one weekend, the two leaders engaged in a series of high-stakes negotiations that fundamentally altered the course of history.

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