POLS 368 Lecture Notes - Schizophrenia, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library And Museum, Lyndon B. Johnson

• School: U of S
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 368
• Professor: Martin Gaal

Document Summary

There was an important arms agreement that was reached during the later 60s. To create a hotline between washington and moscow. If things ever got that tense again, they"d have a last chance to communicate (something that couldn"t be interfered with by a third party). The u. s. was also instrumental in the nuclear test ban treaty, signed in 1963, and it prohibited the test of nuclear weapons above ground. Limit on size of nuclear test you could undertake. Some of the worst damage could by halted, at least by the signatory states. For the soviets, americans and british, this was a very significant and symbolic type of agreement. This type of agreement would not have existed in the 50s. It was an agreement not to put missiles on mars. Both the chinese and the french refused to sign, again. They said it preserves a hegemony by the soviet union and the. Both said they"d continue to test above ground.