Signing of an agreement between the Soviet Union and France on the prevention of accidental or unauthorized use of nuclear weapons

USSR. Moscow. Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin and French Foreign Minister Jean Sauvagnargues (from right to left in the foreground) after the signing ceremony in the Vladimir Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace of the agreement between the Soviet Union and France on the prevention of accidental or unauthorized use of nuclear weapons. Vladimir Musaelyan, Valentin Sobolev/TASS