Iceland in the Cold War a summit in Reykjavík in 1986 between United States President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev, during which they took significant steps toward nuclear disarmament. Only a few years later, in 1991, when Jón Baldvin Hannibalsson was foreign minister, Iceland would become the first country to recognize the independence of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania as they broke away from the Soviet Union. The US base served as a hub for transports and communications to Europe, a key chain in the GIUK gap, a monitor of Soviet submarine activity, a linchpin in the early warning system for incoming Soviet attacks,
Moscow Summit (1988) lesser issues such as student exchanges and fishing rights. A significant result was the updating of Soviet history books, which necessitated cancelling some history classes in Soviet secondary schools. In the end, Reagan expressed satisfaction with the summit. Reagan and Gorbachev eventually issued a joint statement, of which excerpts are shown here: One ironic instance of the summit was when Reagan gave Gorbachev a copy of the movie "Friendly Persuasion", whose screenwriter Michael Wilson got blacklisted in the 1950s due to suspected communist sympathies. Moscow Summit (1988) The Moscow Summit was a summit meeting between U.S. Pres. Ronald Reagan and