The USSR and United States opened Strategic Arms Limitation Talks on offensive weapons and missile defenses. Détente reduced some risks of direct confrontation but prioritized superpower security...
The treaty limited anti-ballistic missile systems to reduce incentives for a destabilizing arms race. Its negotiated limits were a superpower bargain that left other states outside the central...
The agreement capped certain strategic offensive arms while negotiations continued. It was an important arms-control step, but it did not eliminate nuclear competition or the global networks of...
After NATO began deploying U.S. intermediate-range missiles in Europe, the Soviet delegation left the talks. The arms-control breakdown heightened fear among European communities living under the...
The Reagan administration proposed meetings in September to discuss resuming negotiations on strategic and intermediate-range nuclear weapons and antisatellite arms. The proposal came after years of...
