strategic arms limitation treaty

SALT I is the common name for the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Agreement signed on May 26, 1972.

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Strategic Arms Limitations Talks/Treaty (SALT) I and II. SALT I also limited land-based ICBMs that were in range from the northeastern border of the continental United Stat…

Likewise, this agreement would limit the number of MIRVed ballistic missiles and long range missiles to 1,320.A major breakthrough for this agreement occurred at the An agreement to limit strategic launchers was reached in Two conferences between the United States and Soviet Union involving arms controlDavid Tal, " 'Absolutes' and 'Stages' in the Making and Application of Nixon’s SALT Policy."

[...] His policy of linkage had in fact failed.

SALT I froze the number of strategic ballistic missile launchers at existing levels and provided for the addition of new The strategic nuclear forces of the Soviet Union and the United States were changing in character in 1968.
Jimmy Carter (seated left) and Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev signing the SALT II treaty in Vienna, June 18, 1979.Soviet M-4 (Myasishchev M-4) long-range strategic bomber planes being dismantled in compliance with the SALT II treaty, August 1989.This article was most recently revised and updated by The summit was held in Vienna in June 1979, and Carter returned to seek congressional approval for SALT II as well…

A basic problem in these negotiations was the asymmetry between the strategic forces of the two countries, the U.S.S.R. having concentrated on missiles with large warheads while the United States had developed smaller missiles of greater accuracy. During that period the United States and the Soviet Union negotiated the first agreements to place limits and restraints on some of their central and most important armaments.

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Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty I The negotiations known as Strategic Arms Limitation Talks began in November 1969 and ended in January 1972, with agreement on two documents: the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM Treaty) and the Interim Agreement on the Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms.

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…of a second arms agreement, SALT II.

START I. SALT I, the first series of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, extended from November 1969 to May 1972.

Both were signed on May 26, 1972.

Get kids back-to-school ready with Expedition: Learn! Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article.Of the resulting complex of agreements (SALT I), the most important were the Treaty on Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Systems and the The SALT II negotiations opened late in 1972 and continued for seven years. In 1972 Nixon and Kissinger negotiated an Interim Agreement that limited the number of strategic offensive missiles each side could deploy in the future.
During the late 1960s, the United States learned that the Soviet Union had embarked upon a massive Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) buildup designed to reach parity with the United States.