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The ABM treaty was ratified by the U.S. Senate on August 3, 1972. The Interim Agreement froze each side’s number of ICBMs and submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) at current levels for five years, pending negotiation of a more detailed SALT II.
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The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) were two rounds of bilateral conferences and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union. The Cold War superpowers dealt with arms control in two rounds of talks and agreements: SALT I and SALT II .
What was SALT 1? The Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, or SALT 1, was an agreement between the superpowers to limit the number of nuclear weapons they had. When was SALT 1 signed? SALT 1 was signed on 26th May, 1972. Who signed SALT 1? The SALT 1 agreement was signed between Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev . What was agreed in SALT 1?
17 Σεπ 2024 · Explain the importance of the SALT agreements (1972 and 1979) for Cold War tensions. 8 marks. Partial answer: SALT 1 in 1972 reduced Cold War tensions. SALT 1 introduced more restrictions on nuclear weapons. For example, the Interim Treaty meant that the USA could only have around 1,000 ICBMs and 740 SLBMs.
Nixon and Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev signed the ABM Treaty and interim SALT agreement on May 26, 1972, in Moscow. For the first time during the Cold War, the United States and Soviet Union had agreed to limit the number of nuclear missiles in their arsenals.
SALT I, the first series of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, extended from November 1969 to May 1972. 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.
In accordance with Article VII of the Interim Agreement, in which the sides committed themselves to continue active negotiations on strategic offensive arms, the SALT II negotiations began in November 1972.
