Evaluate the ways in which Khrushchev tried to ease the tension after the Hungarian revolution.

Khrushchev had made three attempts to ease the tension after the Hungarian revolution. All of them had the same basis: nuclear weapons. Firstly, in December 1957 Khrushchev proposed banning all nuclear missiles from Poland, Czechoslovakia and Germany. Then on January 9th 1958 Khrushchev proposed summit level talks with Eisenhower on creating a nuclear free central Europe and limiting bomb tests, which Eisenhower rejected. Then on March 31 1958 the USSR unilaterally halted nuclear testing. I believe that when Khrushchev …

…gain more respect and loyalty from the communist eastern European countries which now had seen two sides of Khrushchev, the side that killed 27000 people in Hungary and the side which was willing to give up nuclear testing in order to assure the USSR's safety. In conclusion I think that Khrushchev's actions were good especially for propaganda, but too weak to push the West to reciprocate with similar actions to halt or make nuclear testing 'safer'.