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26th May 1972: The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty at the Moscow Summit

26th May 2026
Tagged as: Brezhnev, Cold War, Detente, ICBM, Missile, Moscow, Nixon, Richard Nixon, SALT, USA, USSR

The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty was intended to limit the development and deployment of missile defence systems during the Cold War to avoid further offensive build-up or create incentives for a first strike.

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21st August 1957: USSR conducts first successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)

21st August 2024
Tagged as: ICBM, Missile, Nuclear, Rocket, Russia, Space Race, USSR

After flying 6,000 kilometres, the R-7 Semyorka rocket successfully hit its target in what is now the Kura Missile Test Range in the Russian Far East.

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26th May 1972: The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty at the Moscow Summit

21st August 1957: USSR conducts first successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

16th September 1978: Filming begins on Monty Python’s Life of Brian after George Harrison steps in to provide funding

15th September 1959: Nikita Khrushchev became the first Soviet leader to visit the United States

14th September 1814: USA’s national anthem lyrics written as the poem “Defence of Fort M’Henry”

13th September 1501: Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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