Arms control and disarmament negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union served the international interests of both as well as the entire global community. These interests included the placement of limits on the number of nuclear weapons (Strategic Arms Control Talks); limits on defensive systems that allowed the reduction of offensive weapons (Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty); limits on the proliferation of nuclear powers (Non-proliferation Treaty); the destruction of an entire class of nuclear weapons (Intermediate Nuclear Forces Agreement); the creation of confidence-building measures; and even the initiation of detente between Washington and Moscow. More
