October 3rd, 1972 - Interim Agreement Enforced into Action

Earlier in 1972 during the détente summit in Moscow, the United States and USSR drew up the guidelines to the Interim Agreement, a document that was to be used in order to assist in the negotiations of limiting the number of anti-ballistic missiles in both countries. The document had fairly standard agreements on the limitations such as not converting land bases into newer models that were made prior to 1964 and both sides will not create any further land bases after this year. However, Article VII played an interesting part stating that both sides would discuss further limitations at a later date. This raised questions as to if President Nixon had any plans of reviving the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks which ended in May of that year, or if the article was addressing another event entirely. Only time will tell for now.