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i devote a lot of “The Dead Hand” to answering the questions raised here, and documenting those answers. Don’t forget that arms control is political will. Reagan and Gorbachev turned a corner, the results flowed later.
I'm willing to grant Reagan as part of a longer process, but one can't say that Reagan slashed stockpiles. (And it is an interesting but unanswerable hypothetical to ask whether Bush Sr would have slashed the US stockpile in the post Cold War with or without Reykjavik.)
Bush Sr slashed the stockpile to show Gorbachev that the US did not intend to take advantage of the USSR's disarray. Given the way he handled the breakup of the USSR, I'd guess he would have done it in any case, but good will at Reykjavik helped.
I should probably stay out of this, but that's just a partial answer. Lots of the weapons withdrawn from service in 1991 no longer had a mission, and if mission was gone, need for warheads held in reserve was gone, too. So stockpile mostly declined for military reasons.
Or that made it easy for Bush to make his gesture of goodwill.
At best, there were parallel factors. I don't think "good will" was a part of the policy process in the Pentagon, or a part of the stockpile calculations. But, I really should stay out of this. Too busy today to look up historical stuff, and don't want to rely on memory.
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