Soviet Union, June 1972-August 1974The Foreign Relations of the United States series presents the official documentary historical record of major foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity of the United States Government.
This volume is part of a subseries of the Foreign Relations of the United States that documents the most significant foreign policy issues and major decisions of the administrations of Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford. Five volumes in this subseries, volumes XII through XVI, cover U.S. relations with the Soviet Union. This specific volume documents United States policy toward Soviet Union from June 1972 until August 1974, following closely the development of the administration's policy of Détente and culminating with President Nixon's resignation in August 1974.
This volume continues the practice of covering U.S.-Soviet relations in a global context, highlighting conflict and collaboration between the two superpowers in the era of Détente. Chronologically, it follows volume XIV, Soviet Union, October 1971- May 1972, which documents the May 1972 Moscow Summit between President Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. This volume includes numerous direct personal communications between Nixon and Brezhnev covering a host of issues, including clarifying the practical application of the SALT I and ABM agreements signed in Moscow. Other major themes covered include the war in Indochina, arms control, the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSE), commercial relations and most-favored-nation status, grain sales, the emigration of Soviet Jews, Jackson-Vanik legislation, and the October 1973 Arab-Israeli war. |
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... nuclear field . In your letter , you referred at length to the conflict in Indochina . I greatly appreciate what you ... war in Vietnam . See Public Papers : Nixon , 1972 , pp . 583-587 . 1 Source : National Archives , Nixon ...
... nuclear war between our countries , with the way in which they should build their relations . In short , we are ready to express in the Treaty the idea that the very development of the relations between the two powers should not ...
... Nuclear War14 DECLARATION Guided by the objectives of strengthening world peace and inter- national security : Conscious that nuclear war could have devastating consequences for mankind : Proceeding from the desire to bring about ...
... war , and in conformity with the various agreements to which either has ... nuclear weapons will not be justified . II . The two parties agree that the ... nuclear conflict , the two parties , acting in accordance with the terms ...
... nuclear war , not as a way of avoiding it . Had we really lost interest in the subject ? I said no , we had not lost interest but we had major difficulty with the Soviet proposition . Dobrynin asked whether we would be prepared to ...