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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]
It was held May 22–30, 1972. It featured the signing of the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, the first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I), and the U.S.–Soviet Incidents at Sea agreement. The summit is considered one of the hallmarks of the détente at the time between the two Cold War antagonists.
January 1, 1968: March 5, 1970: yes Bans the proliferation of nuclear technology to non-nuclear nations. Seabed Arms Control Treaty: February 11, 1971: May 18, 1972: yes Bans emplacement of nuclear weapons on the ocean floor outside territorial waters. Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I) January 1, 1972: no A five-year ban on installing ...
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 ...
The United States and Soviet Union sign the SALT-1 strategic arms limitation treaty. Cessna builds its 100,000th aircraft, the first company in the world to achieve this figure. Two American UH-1B attack helicopters use TOW antitank missiles to destroy 12 North Vietnamese tanks outside Kon Tum , South Vietnam, allowing South Vietnamese forces ...
[1] It was viewed as a preliminary step toward preventing the outbreak of nuclear war or military conflict by adopting an attitude of international cooperation. Together with the Basic Principles Agreement and the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), it represented an attempt to establish 'rules' for superpower competition during the Cold ...
In May 1972, Nixon met with Leonid Brezhnev and other leading Soviet officials at the 1972 Moscow Summit. The two sides reached the Strategic Arms Limitation Agreement (SALT I), which set upper limits on the number of offensive missiles and ballistic missile submarines that each county could maintain.
May 13, 1972: Aftermath of the Bean Station bus-truck collision At 5:35 a.m., a head-on collision between a double-decker Greyhound bus and a tractor-trailer on U.S. Route 11W in Bean Station, Tennessee , killed 14 people and injured 15 , becoming one of the worst vehicular collisions in the state of Tennessee and topping headlines nationwide.