Mikhail Gorbachev

MOSCOW – Twenty-five years ago this month, I sat across from Ronald Reagan in Reykjavik, Iceland to negotiate a deal that would have reduced, and could have ultimately eliminated by 2000, the fearsome arsenals of nuclear weapons held by the United States and the Soviet Union. For all our...

The nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl 20 years ago this month, even more than my launch of perestroika, was perhaps the real cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union five years later. Indeed, the Chernobyl catastrophe was an historic turning point: there was the era before the disaster, and there is...

Looking back to the revolutions that shook Europe and the world 15 years ago this month, we should rejoice in what has been gained — freedom, democracy, and transcendence of Europe’s 40-year division. But we should also take stock of missed opportunities in the wake of the Cold War’s peaceful end....