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At the Geneva summit last month Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev agreed to step up the pace of the arms control talks that will resume early next year, and they agreed in principle on a 50 perce… ...
By closing the door on the SALT II treaty, President Reagan is missing the whole intention of its creation–that of maintaining peace. Originally Published: June 30, 1986 at 1:00 AM CDT.
The bilateral Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT) began in the 1960s and led to the groundbreak SALT I treaty, the first to place limits on the nuclear disposition of the two countries.
The 1972 SALT I Treaty and Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty negotiated by the Johnson and Nixon Administrations and the 1979 SALT II Treaty negotiated by the Nixon, Ford, and Carter ...
Carter withdraws SALT II accord, Jan. 2, 1980 President Jimmy Carter had signed the treaty with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev in Vienna in June 1979. By Andrew Glass 01/01/2018 09:32 PM EST ...
On this day in 1979, President Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev, the chairman of the Soviet Communist Party, signed the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, an accord aimed at establishing numerical ...
The White House Thursday declared that the SALT II treaty with the Soviet Union ”no longer exists,” although President Reagan had said just 12 hours earlier at his news conference that ”we ...
The ABM Treaty was an outgrowth of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks held between 1969 and 1979. Signed in 1972, ... START II and the SORT treaties. SALT I was ratified in 1972.
The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) was an agreement between Russia and the U.S. that ran from 1979 to 1985. ... It's time for a personal SALT treaty April 6, 2023 ...