What was the effect of limiting nuclear weapons during the Cold War?A. Survey PlanThe survey evaluates the effect of limiting nuclear weapons during the Cold War. To assess its importance, the survey evaluates the role of détente and strategic arms limitation discourse during the Cold War. These causes are investigated by the SALT process, the Strategic Defense Initiative, the role of the policy of détente and its demolition, as well as the complete elimination of nuclear weapons. The articles are mainly used to evaluate the significance of the policy of détente. Two sources used in the essay, The Cold War and The Cold War, A New History compiled by Robert McMahon and John Lewis Gaddis, are then evaluated for their origin, purpose, values, and limitations.B. Summary of Evidence Before the policy of détente was scrapped, it was used to lessen the danger of nuclear war through the negotiation of verifiable arms control agreements, a hallmark of détente; the centerpiece was Soviet America's effort to limit the nuclear arms race. Détente was not intended to replace the Cold War with a peace framework, but to manage the Cold War in a more secure and controlled manner so as to minimize the possibility of an accidental war or destabilizing arms movement. Détente then transformed into a “new correlation of forces on the world stage” as countries began to accept détente as a sign of power rather than weakness. Although at first the European détente process gained popular approval in the context of the Cold War in Europe, leading to a significant increase in trade between Eastern and Western Europe, greater individual freedom of movement across the Iron Curtain , claiming tensions across Central Europe and the growth of... half of the document...this view can be justified by the fact that nuclear weapons played an important role in the Cold War, as countries were trying to balance their deployment, but as time passed they slowly began to disappear due to the treaties made by Gorbachev and Nixon which led to the collapse and changes of the Soviet Union.F. Sources Beichman, Arnold. “By refusing to accept second place, Reagan ended (and won) the Cold War.” Washington Times. July 1997.Cannon, London. President Reagan, The Role of a Lifetime. New York: Public Affairs. 1991.Gaddis, John Lewis. The Cold War, a new history. New York: Penguin Books. 2005.McCauley, Martin. Russia, America and the Cold War. London: Pearson Education Limited. 2004.McMahon, Robert. The Cold War. New York: Oxford. 2005. “Russia and Eastern Europe Ended the Cold War.” Arabia 2000. November 2000.