No Cuban Missile Crisis: effect on US-Soviet detente

Based on my understanding of the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis was understandably a major contributor to the later U.S. policy of detente towards the Soviet Union. However, the official detente period didn't actually begin until years later when the first round of anti-nuclear proliferation treaties were negotiated.

My question is, in the absence of a Cuban Missile Crisis (say Nixon is President during the early 1960s), what is the effect on the detente of the 1970s? Could it still come about as a result of the Vietnam War and Sino-Soviet border dispute? Or would a similar crisis play out, resulting in little change to history?
 
Based on my understanding of the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis was understandably a major contributor to the later U.S. policy of detente towards the Soviet Union. However, the official detente period didn't actually begin until years later when the first round of anti-nuclear proliferation treaties were negotiated.

My question is, in the absence of a Cuban Missile Crisis (say Nixon is President during the early 1960s), what is the effect on the detente of the 1970s? Could it still come about as a result of the Vietnam War and Sino-Soviet border dispute? Or would a similar crisis play out, resulting in little change to history?

...why would Tricky Dick prevent the Cuban Missile Crisis? I imagine he'd let Bay of Pigs go ahead as planned to similarly disastrous results, leading to the Soviets placing missiles in Cuba as OTL. Of course, it's always possible to change the Crisis if the missiles aren't discovered until they're fiat accompli, or for a worst case scenario some personality changes result in someone pressing the button...

If you really want an earlier détente, try avoiding the 1960 U-2 incident.
 
...why would Tricky Dick prevent the Cuban Missile Crisis? I imagine he'd let Bay of Pigs go ahead as planned to similarly disastrous results, leading to the Soviets placing missiles in Cuba as OTL. Of course, it's always possible to change the Crisis if the missiles aren't discovered until they're fiat accompli, or for a worst case scenario some personality changes result in someone pressing the button...

If you really want an earlier détente, try avoiding the 1960 U-2 incident.

I've seen arguments on both sides as to whether Nixon would let the Bay of Pigs play out as OTL--but many are adamant that the Cuban Missile Crisis was unique to Kennedy being in office due to his particular relationship with Khrushchev. Nothing's certain, of course, but I don't want to let that get in the way of the question--my concern is addressing how the CMC's absence would affect Cold War relations leading up to the Reagan era.
 
...why would Tricky Dick prevent the Cuban Missile Crisis? I imagine he'd let Bay of Pigs go ahead as planned to similarly disastrous results, leading to the Soviets placing missiles in Cuba as OTL. Of course, it's always possible to change the Crisis if the missiles aren't discovered until they're fiat accompli, or for a worst case scenario some personality changes result in someone pressing the button...

If you really want an earlier détente, try avoiding the 1960 U-2 incident.

If Nixon is conducting the Bay of pigs then the United States is going to fully support the invasion with USMC and USN assets in order to get rid of Castro Nixon also the rebels if Nixon was elected would probably land at Trinidad instead of the Bay of Pigs which was somewhat more suitable as a landing ite
 
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