Thirty-nine years ago today, on October 11, 1986 (September 8, 1986 lunar calendar), the leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union met in Reykjavik. US President Reagan met with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland. On October 11, 1986, US President Reagan met with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland. No substantive progress was made at the November 1985 Geneva talks between US and Soviet leaders on strategic defense and other issues. In order to break the deadlock, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and US President Ronald Reagan held their second meeting in Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, on October 11-12, 1986. The Soviet side emphasized that the focus of the talks was on arms control issues, while the US side emphasized that the talks included all four areas of bilateral relations (i.e. arms control, regional conflicts, human rights, and bilateral relations). At the beginning of the meeting, the Soviet Union put forward specific disarmament proposals, making major concessions on medium-range missiles, strategic weapons, nuclear tests and other issues. The two sides agreed on a preliminary agreement to drastically reduce strategic weapons. But at the last moment of the negotiations, the Soviet Union showed its cards, asking the United States to undertake not to test "Star Wars" weapons in space for 10 years as a condition of reaching a package agreement. Reagan said he would never give up the "Star Wars" plan. The negotiations did not achieve substantive results.