Nuclear arms race- soviet union was scared that the US was going to bomb them. If the soviet union bombed us then we would bomb them and it was called massive retaliation and mutual deteration.
U.S. was the first country to use nuclear weapons trinity was the first tested bomb and the two bomb on japan ended WW2. They chose those two places because they were of military importance.
Anti nuclear movement - was a social movement to stop the use of nuclear weapons.
Nixons visit to china-
in 1972 nixon went to china, he went because he wanted to normalize relations between the US and china. it reduced trade restrictions. ended the 25 years of isolation.
!970s peace agreement- Detente - used to ease the tentions of us and the soviet union from going to nuclear war.
SALT 1 -balistic missile launcher
anti balistic missile is if soviet union sent up a missle we would sent up something to stop it
SALT 1 was to reduce the nuclear missiles between us and the soviet union.
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