 Some thought of an international reactor design had been ongoing since June 1973 under the name INTOR, for INternational TOkamak Reactor.This was originally started through an agreement between Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev, but had been moving slowly since its first real meeting on 23 November 1978.During the Geneva Superpower Summit in November 1985, Reagan raised the issue with Mikhail Gorbachev and proposed reforming the organization.