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detente, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks - Coggle Diagram
detente
USSR motives
- Current arms parity acting as a deterrent for conflict
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- Reduce arms expenditure so spending could be focussed on consumer goods to aid improvements in Russian living standards.
- Access to western technology
US motives
- Vietnam forced the US to realise they were not an almighty power, but detente could work to resolve this embarrassment
- Current arms parity acting as a deterrent for conflict
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- Role of Nixon and Kissinger
- Reducing military spending & focus spending on social reform.
outer space treaty
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- Banned the placement of nuclear weapons in orbit, in space or on the Moon by either superpower.
SALT
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Attempted to control the production of nuclear weapons by imposing quotas on number of nuclear weapons bases and the number of missiles they could store.
Agreed not to produce short range, strategic ballistic missiles.
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