Nuclear weapons were not the only item on the agenda at the
pivotal 1986 Reykjavik summit. U.S. President Ronald Reagan and
Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev discussed issues ranging from
human rights to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. But
understandably, nuclear weapons were at the heart of the talks,
and today, the summit is mainly remembered for how the two
leaders came within a hair's breadth of agreeing to the complete
elimination of nuclear weapons within 10 years. Two decades
later, as U.S. President Barack Obama meets in Moscow with
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir
Putin, the agenda is similarly crowded, with concerns ranging
from logistics in Afghanistan to the status of Russia's
satellite states. But as the Obama administration seeks a
complete reset of the U.S.-Russia relationship, progress on
nuclear weapons must still be the top priority. The political
environment on disarmament and nonproliferation has changed
drastically in recent months. Both countries have agre