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The 1986 Reykjavík Summit: when hopes for nuclear peace were dashed

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Former US president Ronald Reagan and president of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev during a meeting in Moscow, Russia, on 16 September 1990. (Photo by Wojtek Laski/Getty Images)
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Transcending the Cold War . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Cold War summits . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Soviet missiles in Red Square during the May Day Parade of 1962, the year the world came closest to nuclear war. (Photo by Sovfoto/UIG via Getty Images)
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History explorer: the Cold War . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Cold War and the history of philosophy . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Peasants’ Revolt and a Cold War spy . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The end of the Cold War and British culture . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Berlin Wall in November 1989
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The story of Germany . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Cold War smuggling and First World War veterans . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Cold War spies and friendship through the ages . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Sport offered the two sides the perfect stage on which to get one over on the 'enemy', says Dominic Sandbrook. Pictured here is a queue for a football match between Arsenal and Dynamo Moscow. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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The Cold War in your living room . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Cold War culture and the path to the First World War . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Cold War Olympic boycott . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British prime minister Edward Heath with Olympic gold medal winner Mary Peters. (Bettmann/Getty Images)
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Communist sport: Cold War copycats