Who Influenced the Conclusion of the Cold War, Gorbachev or Reagan?

The Cold War era was an extremely frightening reality check to the world that the threat of nuclear destruction was dangerously present. Two significant figures during the later years of the Cold war were Mikhail Gorbachev and former president Ronald Reagan. Gorbachev's goal was to ultimately rid the world of nuclear threat, and most of all, the weapons themselves. Reagan, on the other hand, was attempting to abolish the nuclear threat coming from Russia while keeping the weapons possessed by the U.S. operational. Out of these two men, Gorbachev had the most impact in the ending of the Cold War, handling everything as peaceful as possible.…