It also may have led to the shooting down of a KAL airliner. It took the coming to power of two nuclear sceptics, Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan, to agree to the ban.

First Reagan and then Bush came to view Mr. Gorbachev, who died at 91 on Tuesday ... friendship and negotiated a landmark arms control treaty that for the first time did not just slow the arms ...

Detente was taking root. When Gorbachev came to Washington in December 1987, he and Reagan were able to sign the landmark treaty on limiting intermediate range nuclear forces. “At first he ...

While in office, Gorbachev and U.S. President Ronald Reagan signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 1987. In a statement Tuesday, Fred Ryan, the chairman of the board at the Reagan ...

But this was nothing compared to the firestorm that erupted on the right when Reagan and Gorbachev finally signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty in December 1987. In response ...

Over the next year, Reagan and Mr. Gorbachev agreed to eliminate an entire class of nuclear-armed missiles, the intermediate-range rockets in Europe, signing a treaty to scrap them at the ...

October 11-12, 1986: Gorbachev and Reagan meet in Reykjavik ... December 1987: Signs the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces, or INF, Treaty with Reagan. The treaty banned the U.S. and Soviet ...

This must not be allowed,” he said. And asked about the demise of the 1987 treaty he signed with Reagan, Gorbachev expressed a hope that such arms control agreements could be revived.

But the following year, at the Washington summit, Reagan and Gorbachev signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty — the first treaty banning, not merely reducing, an entire class ...

When Gorbachev met U.S. President Ronald Reagan in Washington, D.C., in 1987 to sign the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, it was clear that former enemies had found common ground.