Nixon, Detente, and Sino-American Normalization, The Arms Race, 1963-1975, Espionage, Covert Action, and the Cold War, Counter-Cultures: The Rebellions against the Cold War Order, 1965-1975, Germany, ...

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 ...

Richard Nixon is remembered as the president who carried out a pivotal shift in the US’ postwar foreign policy. His foreign policy included the Nixon Doctrine, a thaw with China, and a détente ...

This was the first time a President of the USA had been in the Soviet Union since 1945. Nixon met Brezhnev, leader of the USSR. In the 1970s, the Soviet economy was in trouble and had to look to ...

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 ...

There were a number of reasons why the Soviet Union and the USA became interested in lessening tensions in the 1960s and 1970s: President Nixon was keen to improve relations with China as well as ...