The final decade of the Cold War opened with the US-Soviet confrontation continuing largely without any interruption. Superpower tensions escalated rapidly as President Reagan scrapped the policy of détente and adopted a new, much more aggressive stance on the Soviet Union.
Due to the new government the balance of power had change in Middle East. This increased tension between America and Russia, the two superpowers. This made both superpowers more worried what the coinsurances are.