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Towards Détente
The Cuban Missile Crisis had shown the US and USSR just how close they had come to a nuclear show-down.
1963
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- Nuclear test ban treaty
- Only underground tests allowed
1967
1968
- Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
- powers with nuclear weapons agreed not to give any other countries nuclear weapons technology.
- They will share the benefits of peaceful nuclear power.