Detente, SALT and Helsinki 1972-1979: HSC Modern History Cold War

A focused answer to the HSC Modern History Cold War dot point on detente, the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I, 26 May 1972; SALT II, 18 June 1979), the Helsinki Final Act (1 August 1975), the role of Nixon, Kissinger, Brezhnev, Carter, and the collapse of detente by the late 1970s through the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (December 1979) and the failure of SALT II ratification.