Was Micheal Gorbachov really serious at the "Iceland Conference" with Ronald Reagan?

In isolation the Reykjav�k Summit might be considered a failure - or at least unproductive but it did give both sides an indaication of the level of concession each was likely to make. It did however raise issues of human rights and goiot these on to the agenda andit did eentually result in the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty of 1987. Reagan was delivering lines that he was being given, of course, so his background as an actor can only have been of benefit - we would be in a poor posiiton if we relied solely on the intellect of most of the recent US Presidents.