Koniuszewski: Mikhail Gorbachev's legacy includes the environment

“We can do business together,” said Margaret Thatcher of Mikhail Gorbachev in 1984. But it was not love at first sight between Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan when they first met at the Geneva summit in 1985. The American president called him a “die-hard Communist,” while Gorbachev fired back that Reagan was “not a hawk but a dinosaur.” Still, Reagan quickly realized that Gorbachev was unlike previous Soviet leaders and both understood a nuclear war coul