Nuclear diplomacy

Question 1

What did Gorbachev seek to reduce?

Answer 1

The nuclear arsenals on both sides of the Cold War

Question 2

What did Gorbachev and Reagan try to do through a series of summits?

Answer 2

Work together to bring about the first arms reduction treaty of the Cold War

Question 3

What happened at the Geneva Summit (November 1985)?

Answer 3

Gorbachev - proposed a 50% cut in the total number of US and Soviet nuclear weapons if the USA would stop developing SDI
Reagan - refused to give up SDI, no agreement reached

Question 4

What happened at the Reykjavik Summit (September 1986)?

Answer 4

Gorbachev - proposed to eliminate all nuclear weapons by the year 2000 if the USA would stop developing SDI
Reagan - refused to give up SDI, no agreement reached

Question 5

What happened under the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (December 1987)?

Answer 5

Gorbachev dropped his insistence that SDI should be discontinued.
USA and USSR agreed that all intermediate-range nuclear missiles should be scrapped
A reduction of 1750 Soviet missiles and 850 US missiles

Question 6

Why was the INF Treaty significant?

Answer 6

It was known as an arms reduction treaty, in contrast to the SALT agreements, which merely limited the growth of nuclear arsenals