ABSTRACT
Both the United States and the Soviet Union were shaken by the Cuban Missile Crisis, which took the world to the brink of nuclear war. The mood was for détente and safeguards to limit the escalating nuclear arms race. The immediate result was the provision of a ‘hotline’ between Washington and Moscow, set up June 1963, and, in August of the same year, the Test Ban Treaty, which restricted the testing of nuclear weapons.
