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SALT I is the common name for the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Agreement signed on May 26, 1972. SALT I froze the number of strategic ballistic missile launchers at existing levels and provided for the addition of new submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) launchers only after the same number of older intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and SLBM launchers had been dismantled. [2]
Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev signing SALT II treaty, 18 June 1979, in Vienna. The United States first proposed an anti-ballistic missile treaty at the 1967 Glassboro Summit Conference during discussions between U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union Alexei Kosygin. McNamara ...
1979 – SALT II (not ratified by U.S.) – sought to limit production of strategic nuclear weapons; 1979 – Treaty of Tarawa – recognizes sovereignty of Kiribati over disputed islands; 1980 – Maritime Boundary Treaty – settles disputed claims and establishes the maritime boundary between American Samoa and the Cook Islands
In 1979, Brezhnev and United States President Jimmy Carter signed the SALT II agreement. The agreement was a new bilateral strategic arms limitation treaty. [64] However, on December 27, 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, so the United States Senate never ratified the treaty. [64]
On June 18, 1979, the SALT II treaty was signed in Vienna. This treaty limited both sides' nuclear arsenals and technology. However, in light of the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979, the United States Senate never ratified the SALT II treaty. This ended the treaty negotiations as well as the era of détente. [36]
On 2 January 1980 President Carter withdrew the SALT-II treaty from consideration before the Senate, [127] and on 3 January he recalled US Ambassador Thomas J. Watson from Moscow. [128] On 9 January the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 462.
U.S. President Jimmy Carter asked the Senate to delay further consideration of ratification of the SALT II Treaty, the second U.S. and U.S.S.R. agreement from the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks to limit the number of nuclear missiles. [19] The treaty had been signed on June 18, 1979, but would never be ratified.
Protest in Bonn against the nuclear arms race between the NATO and the Warsaw Pact, 1981. The NATO Double-Track Decision was the decision by NATO from December 12, 1979, to offer the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact a mutual limitation of medium-range ballistic missiles and intermediate-range ballistic missiles amidst the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. [1]