<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War" id="mw2w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Cold War">Cold War</a>: In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva" id="mw3A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Geneva">Geneva</a>, representatives from the United States and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" id="mw3Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> begin to negotiate intermediate-range <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon" id="mw3g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Nuclear weapon">nuclear weapon</a> reductions in Europe. (The meetings end inconclusively on December 17.)