The Cold War

Currently Playing: How the US and the USSR almost Abolished Their Nuclear Weapons: Reykjavik 1986

Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a look at the 1986 meeting between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in Reykjavik, Iceland. This was the meeting where the two men came so close, but ultimately failed, to abolish both of their nuclear arsenals. Saturday Morning Cartoons: https://youtu.be/hPToTKCcycI The Profumo Affair: https://youtu.be/PfQ-FY3zPdM Ghosts of Cold War Berlin: https://youtu.be/52bC38bm6rk America's Bioweapons pt 2: https://youtu.be/0yEVIRy23H4 America's Bioweapons pt 1: https://youtu.be/12WyLu6WuBs The CIA's Poisoner-in-Chief: https://youtu.be/6zRat81cDrg The Soviet Economy: Brezhnev, Oil, & Stagnation: https://youtu.be/NUUZCD_XfjI The Soviet Economy: Revolution to Khrushchev: https://youtu.be/2arxTSPhr6g How Khrushchev Fed the Soviet People: https://youtu.be/qIZDa7ZcUhE How Khrushchev Housed Everyone: https://youtu.be/lazVrmC7IVQ Soviet Tourism: https://youtu.be/t9KrH-xG20Q Soviet Passport System: New Serfdom or Reform?: https://youtu.be/Dgr9F3WFsbo Soviet Education System: https://youtu.be/AD_JwbivtMA Communist Girl Scouts of America: https://youtu.be/QvgEHc0iyoQ ASALA, Armenia Secret Army: https://youtu.be/DFzIVfTNjH0 Amchitka Island Nuclear Test: https://youtu.be/Z89YnSS5RQA Soviet Criminal Underworld: https://youtu.be/zEJrivfLKGc Project Iceworm: Nukes Under the Ice: https://youtu.be/ePT8gp0LKsk Haiti and the Dominican Republic: https://youtu.be/apgYxvtDFQY Red Army Faction: https://youtu.be/wgYfTQJYCkI Support us on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/TheColdWar, Youtube membership https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCGvq-qmjFmmMD4e-PLQqGg/join ✔ Merch store ► https://teespring.com/stores/thecoldwar ✔ Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/thecoldwar ✔ Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/thecoldwartv ✔ Instagram ►http://www.instagram.com/thecoldwartv #ColdWar #ColdWarHistory #History #ModernHistory #reykjavik #reykjaviksummit #TheBrinkofWar #Gorbachev #Reagan #Schultz Reagan and Reykjavík by Ken Adelman https://thebulletin.org/virtual-tour/president-ronald-reagan-the-ussrs-mikhail-gorbachev-and-the-inf-treaty/ https://www.sipri.org/media/press-release/2025/nuclear-risks-grow-new-arms-race-looms-new-sipri-yearbook-out-now https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB203/index.htm https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/21545-document-08 https://www.sipri.org/media/press-release/2025/nuclear-risks-grow-new-arms-race-looms-new-sipri-yearbook-out-now