Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty

Strategic Defense Initiative The mission of the Missile Defense Agency is “to develop, test, and field an integrated, layered, ballistic missile defense system (BMDS) to defend the United States, its deployed forces, allies, and friends against all ranges of enemy ballistic missiles in all phases of flight” (History). Today, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is the United States’ ballistic missile research and development organization that resulted from the proposed Strategic Defense Initiative…

drop supplies via airplane. At this point, Western Europe and the US signed the North Atlantic Treaty which agreed that if one country, that was part of the treaty, was attacked, it would be considered an attack on all. Six years later, the Warsaw Pact was created by Communist powers which had the similar idea of NATO in which if one country was attacked, it’d be viewed as an attack on all within the treaty. This allowed for the Soviet Union to control its Communist territories more…

especially after the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) -Earlier agreements on Arms Control: o The Limited Test Ban Treaty (1963) -> the first arms control agreement of the Cold War -Détente (formal agreements on arms control): o The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) 1968 -> an agreement…

27. Cuban Missile crisis Around 1960, the U.S was planning to put a naval blockade in Cuba and they wanted to remove all of the nuclear warfare from the area and prevent further creation of these missiles. But a secret meeting between Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev led to an idea of placing multiple missile launch bases along the coast of Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S controlled Florida. When U.S air force planes had spotted these missile bases. While President Kennedy was working on…

As president, Nixon was more progressive than many might give him credit for. He pushed for renewal by Congress of Johnson’s Voting Rights Act of 1965 in 1970. Additionally, the Nixon administration established biracial committees to desegregate schools in the southern states completely, and also created a Presidential Task Force on Women’s Rights in order to help end discrimination on the basis of sex. Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency in 1973, which continues to propose new…

America is a democracy, and the foundation of a democracy is the people. The people’s voice and thoughts in government is what makes this country unique. Our allowance of populism is such an important part of our democracy. Populism could have been destroyed after September 11th, and the government could have taken complete control over our nation to protect it, but what makes this decade spectacular and makes this government great is that didn’t happen. The people’s thoughts were taken even…

Although President Richard Nixon is known more for the Watergate scandal and as the only US President to have resigned from office, he was responsible for introducing a number of bold and innovative foreign policy When Nixon took over the office of US President in 1969, the Vietnam War was the main issue in the country. During his election campaign, Nixon had promised to bring the American soldiers home. He started to implement a…

of defeating the Soviets/Russians in outer space. The United States Space Program has changed in size, budget, and goals since the beginning of space exploration. Rockets as we know them today began in the mid-1930s in Great Britain as a means of anti-aircraft protection. However, Germany made great developments in guidance systems and propellants both leading up to and during World War Two. In testing, Fritz Stamer, who was a German pilot flying a glider used rockets to propel himself…

The Cuban Missile Crisis triggered a series of treaties to be agreed upon throughout the years of 1961-1979, which had a major calming effect on international relations. Unsurprisingly, the majority of the major treaties signed were based around nuclear disarmament or limitations, the first of those being the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1963. “The treaty was a small but significant step toward the control of nuclear weapons. In the years to come, discussions between the United States and the…

with the others. Nixon played his part well in this “scheme” and became the first president to visit Moscow. While in Moscow, Nixon and Brezhnev formed and signed two important treaties of the Cold War Era; the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty and an Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty. Though significant for their time, these treaties did nothing to slow the building, collecting, and storing of arms, but paved the way to improving relations in regards to armaments in both nations. This relationship…