Oct 20, 2016 | News, Space
The Space Race demonstrated that the United States and Soviet Union could partake in peaceful competition and cooperation From Sputnik to the lunar landings, the Space Race represented one of the more electrifying aspects of the Cold War: the United States and the...
Oct 18, 2016 | Foreign Policy, News, Soviet Union
The Four Power Agreement fused the objectives of Ostpolitik and Détente, setting Germany on the path to reunification Nowhere was the division between the East and the West more noticeable than Berlin. Following Allied victory in 1945, the United States, United...
Oct 6, 2016 | Foreign Policy, News, Soviet Union
A personally dictated memorandum from President Nixon to Henry Kissinger illustrates the complexities of negotiating with the Soviet Union As President Nixon’s National Security Advisor, Henry Kissinger laid much of the groundwork for the policy of détente towards the...
Sep 29, 2016 | Foreign Policy, News, Soviet Union
“Détente” typically arouses thoughts of summits and treaties concerning the vast arsenals of nuclear weapons held by the Cold War superpowers. However, the so-called cooling off period between the United States and the Soviet Union, led by President Nixon, encompassed...
Jul 19, 2016 | Foreign Policy, Nixon Now Podcast, Podcast, Soviet Union
Jussi Hanhimäki is Author of “The Rise and Fall of Detente: American Foreign Policy and the Transformation of the Cold War.” Last week, the Nixon Foundation spoke with historian Jussi Hanhimaki on the subject of Detente with the Soviet Union during the...
