ABSTRACT
The period from the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 to the signing of the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in July 1963 reflected a fundamental shift in the overall relations between the two major protagonists of the postwar period, the United States and the Soviet Union. Postwar Soviet-United States (US) relations have been dominated by cold war politics, including strong ideological opposition between the two superpowers and direct conflicts of interest in areas such as Europe, the Middle East, and other parts of the Third World. In order to perform the statistical tests required for the quasi-experimental design, it is necessary to collect quantitative data to measure the processes for which the evaluation of changing patterns of interaction is proposed. The correlations between time and the position changes of the two superpowers are weakly positive and none of the relationships reached the 0.10 level of statistical significance.
