Hotline Agreement

Hotline Agreement

1-The 1963 “Hotline Agreement” was the first bilateral agreement of the Cold War era between the United States and the Soviet Union.

 2-It became the first of a series of growing “confidence building measures” designed to decrease tensions and eliminate the kinds of misunderstandings and miscalculations that could lead to an accidental nuclear war.

3-It was symbolically important, because for the first time, both sides acknowledged that with the advent of nuclear weapons and intercontinental delivery systems, they needed better communication and cooperation to address an entirely new world of different and unprecedented diplomacy and military strategies.

4-Nuclear weapons had changed both disciplines forever in new and unforeseen ways..