Table of Contents:
  • 1981-82: Reagan's challenge
  • 1981-82: Moscow's truculence
  • 1983: Summit hopes dashed
  • 1984: Reagan prepares; Moscow dawdles
  • 1985: Gorbachev in power
  • 1985: Enter Shevardnadze
  • 1985: Geneva: the first skirmish
  • 1986: Geneva recedes; complications mount
  • 1986: A crisis and a new proposal
  • 1986: Reykjavík: wrestlers in the ring
  • 1986: Reykjavík: recriminations
  • 1987: A common agenda
  • 1987: Gorbachev in Washington
  • 1988: Mr. Reagan goes to Moscow
  • 1988: The Cold War ends--in principle
  • What then?