Great-power summits can bring high drama. The encounter between President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna in 1961 previewed a terrifying showdown over West Berlin. The meeting between two of their successors, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, in Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1986 raised and dashed hopes for nuclear disarmament.
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