US-USSR
Arms Reductions
uAt his meeting
with Reagan in Reykjavík, Iceland, in October 1986, the two leaders exchanged new arms reduction
proposals.
uGorbachev and
Reagan signed an agreement in December 1987 to eliminate medium-range and certain shorter-range
missiles in Europe.
–In May 1990 Gorbachev and Bush initialed a treaty to
end production and reduce
stockpiles of chemical weapons, and in July 1991 they signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I)
requiring substantial
cuts in strategic nuclear weapons.
–He and Shevardnadze
agreed in April 1988 to the complete withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. It was completed by February 1989.