When Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev sat down in Reykjavik in 1986, George Shultz, the American secretary of state at the time, said that it was "the poker game with the highest stakes ever played." It was the last time the world had a chance to do away entirely with nuclear weapons.
In his new book, "An Impossible Dream; Reagan, Gorbachev, and a World Without the Bomb," journalist Guillaume Serina explores the top-secret archives of the Kremlin and the personal papers of Mikhail Gorbachev, as well as the archives of Ronald Reagan to better understand the Reykjavik summit and the world that could have been.
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