Since 1971 U.S.-Soviet trade has jumped sevenfold. The failures of detente are also important and have caused many Americans to have second thoughts about a policy of detente. The conferences on mutual and balanced force reductions and European security are deadlocked. the strategic arms limitation talks could not get off dead center even with Kissingers trip to Moscow. the two superpowers compete now for influence in the Middle East and soon will be competing in South Asia. and the U.S. does not like certain domestic policies (e.g. emigration of Jews) of the Soviet Union. President Nixon and Secretary of State Kissinger. who are the chief architects of the policy of detente. argue the necessity of it because of the unacceptability of nuclear war. and contend that only such a policy serves the long range goal of evolving more normal and responsible conduct by the Soviet leadership. The prevention of war is the capstone of the policy of detente.
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