Reagan, Gorbachev, and Reykjavík

Podcast: History As It Happens · Martin Di Caro

Opublikowano: 2026-10-30

Subscribe now — only $5 per month — for ad-free listening and all of our bonus content! 40 Octobers ago, the superpowers' leaders met in a distant capital and came within a whisker of agreeing to eliminate all nuclear weapons. The Reykjavík summit ended without a breakthrough, but it was not a failure. Soon the world would witness the high tide of arms control treaties and superpower detente. However, that time is long over. In our age of budget-busting nuclear modernization and potential proliferation, superpower hostility and anarchy are the norms. Where’s the spirit of Reagan, Gorbachev, and Rey...