History-making summits between the US and the Soviet Union are strewn through the decades, dripping with mutual suspicion but significantly shaping the course of events after the Cold War.

Think Nixon-Brezhnev in Moscow in 1972 when they signed a landmark arms treaty.

Image: President Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev after signing the Strategic Arms Limitation agreement in the Kremlin in 1972. Pic: AP

Image: Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, left, shakes hands with President Ronald Reagan at the Geneva conference in November 1985. Pic: AP

Think Reagan-Gorbachev in Geneva and Reykjavik and others, which ended in limiting short and intermediate-range ballistic missiles.

All these summits required huge planning and detailed preparation.

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