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 ...

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 ...