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Reykjavik Summit, October 1986
President Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev's disarmament summit in Reykjavik ends in failure after Reagan's refusal to abandon the Strategic Defence Initiative.
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Fri 17 Oct 198621:00
BBC Radio 4
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