Nature and character in Europe

Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis exacerbated and highlighted the international fear of Mutually Assured Destruction, or MAD.

USSR

 * Brezhnev wanted to continue the peaceful co-existence, as the USSR desperately needed more advanced Western technology and trade
 * Allowing the limitations of arms made it so that the USSR could reduce spending and military funding, therefore balancing out their economy
 * The Soviet Union were also unsure as to how or if they were going to keep up with the USA (militarily), and the limitations treaties offered military security