Nixon and Brezhnev, National Archives Mutually Assured Destruction The key weapon of the Cold War, the nuclear bomb, was never used during that conflict, but the possibility of its use cast a long ...

Party leader Leonid Brezhnev visited the United States for summit talks with President Nixon. Nine agreements were signed during his stay in June. In the most important agreement, Nixon and ...

Within days of Nixon’s announcement, he heard from the Soviets, and USSR Premier Leonid Brezhnev invited the president to Moscow in August. “Here we kick the Russians in the teeth — and they ...

A mirror image of the Brezhnev Doctrine is the American Doctrine ... Forty years later, Nixon’s White House rejoiced when General Augusto Pinochet seized power from a democratically elected ...

US president Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the Soviet Union, at the signing of SALT I in 1972 There were two Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) agreed between the USA and the ...

Nuclear proliferation is the increase in the amount of nuclear weapons a country has, or the spread of nuclear capabilities to non-nuclear countries. The superpowers feared nuclear weaponry could ...