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 …showed first 75 words of 512 total…

…showed last 75 words of 512 total…East Germany. In conclusion, Gorbachev did much more for the peaceful attempt to remove nuclear weapons in the world, therefore, influenced the end of the Cold War. Reagan, in contrast, kept the SDI threat alive throughout most of the period in which Gorbachev was attempting to come to an agreement about the removal of nuclear weapons, and as a result, it made Reagan seem less reasonable than Gorbachev during this time of hostility and tension.