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...pushing and pulling among allies will bolster Bush's wariness if Gorbachev delivers a surprise of the sort that caught Ronald Reagan off balance in Reykjavik. Much more likely are broader philosophical explorations of the future course of the superpower relationship and a series of small but still significant incremental steps on trade, chemical weapons and nuclear testing. But White House aides have been hinting for several weeks that Bush will not be going to Malta empty-handed. If past experience is any guide, Bush will not decide to play whatever cards he is carrying until he arrives in Malta...
Arms Control. At the Reykjavik summit in 1986, Reagan stunned many of his advisers and allies by embracing the elimination of all nuclear weapons, a move that would expose Western Europe to the Warsaw Pact's overwhelming numerical superiority in troops and tanks. Bush has expressed far less enthusiasm for nuclear-weapons reductions and has suggested they may have to be conditioned on cuts in Soviet conventional forces...
...part, Gorbachev has already traveled to Geneva, Reykjavik and Washington to meet Ronald Reagan and has made visits to Paris, London and New Delhi, as well as the "fraternal countries" of Eastern Europe. Next year he is expected to go back to France, visit West Germany for the first time and travel to Beijing for the first summit between Soviet and Chinese leaders since...
...away their heavy land-based missiles. Nitze's fervent goal was to cap his career with a "Grand Compromise" that would swap a reduction of offensive missiles for restrictions on strategic defenses. But to do this he often had to operate behind the back of the President. At the Reykjavik summit Nitze almost saw his dream fulfilled, only to have it dashed by the President's last-minute intransigence. Even then, Nitze worked quietly to keep the pieces of the puzzle in place as a legacy to the next Administration...
...wrong to accuse Dukakis of failing to understand that truth. Part of what deters conventional war in Europe is the possibility that such a conflict would escalate to general nuclear war. That is why our allies were so concerned when President Reagan, during his meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev at Reykjavik in 1986, was willing to abolish nuclear weapons and thus abandon nuclear deterrence altogether...