"The latest CTBTO Faces interview is with Roald Sagdeev, Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland, United States. Back in the Soviet Union, Sagdeev served as scientific advisor to President Mikhail Gorbachev on issues related to civil and military applications of outer space. Sagdeev, a graduate of the Moscow State University, was director of the Space Research Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences as well as a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He received the Carl Sagan Memorial Award in 2003. Sagdeev was interviewed on the margins of the ""Reykjavik"" event hosted by the CTBTO in New York on 27 September 2012. He shares his first-hand insights into U.S.-Soviet arms control negotiations, including the tensions surrounding the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and the U.S. ""Star Wars"" programme, and how Gorbachev and his American counterpart, Ronald Reagan, came close to reaching an agreement on abolishing all nuclear weapons during the 1986 Reykjavik Summit."