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tags	category	summary	date	location
Event Diplomacy	Diplomacy	1960 summit between Eisenhower and Khrushchev that collapsed after the U-2 Incident, derailing a potential US-Soviet detente.	1960	Paris, France

The Paris Summit Meeting was scheduled for a few weeks after the U-2 Incident in May 1960, but was ruined by Nikita Khrushchev's rage at the incident, which caught the White House in a series of lies. This event led Dwight D. Eisenhower to order an end to all reconnaissance flights over Russia.¹

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1. Hersh, Seymour M. The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Random House, 1991. Chapter 6. ↩︎