Following the proposal of the Sentinel and Safeguard decisions on American ABM systems, the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks began in November 1969 ( SALT I ).

MIRV was an outgrowth of the rapidly shrinking size and weight of modern warheads and the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaties which imposed limitations on the number of launch vehicles ( SALT I and SALT II ).

* 1993 – In Moscow, Russia, George Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty ( START ).

He changed the name " SALT " ( Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ) to " START " ( Strategic Arms Reduction Talks ).

* Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty ( SALT II ) 1979: Replacing SALT I, SALT II limited both the Soviet Union and the United States to an equal number of ICBM launchers, SLBM launchers, and heavy bombers.

* Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty ( START I )— signed 1991, ratified 1994: Limited long-range nuclear forces in the United States and the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union to 6, 000 attributed warheads on 1, 600 ballistic missiles and bombers.

* Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty II ( START II )— signed 1993, never put into force: START II was a bilateral agreement between the US and Russia which attempted to commit each side to deploy no more than 3, 000 to 3, 500 warheads by December 2007 and also included a prohibition against deploying multiple independent reentry vehicles ( MIRVs ) on intercontinental ballistic missiles ( ICBMs )

* Dikshif, P. Proliferation of Small Arms and Minor Weapons, Strategic Analysis, Vol.

Missile compartments are dismantled according to the provisions of the Strategic Arms Reductions Treaty.

President of the United States | United States President Jimmy Carter and Soviet Union leader Leonid Brezhnev sign the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks | SALT II treaty, June 18, 1979, in Vienna, Austria.

* January 3 – In Moscow, George Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.

The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ( SALT ) between the United States and Soviet Union in the late 1960s / early 1970s led to further weapons control agreements.

The SALT I talks led to the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and an Interim Strategic Arms Limitation Agreement ( see SALT I ), both in 1972.

The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaties were signed, as START I and START II, by the US and Soviet Union, further restricting weapons.

* Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty ( START I ), signed 1991, entered into force 1994, expired 2009

Major foreign policy events during his term of office included the normalization of relations with the People's Republic of China ( and the severing of ties with the Republic of China ); the signing of the second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty ( SALT II ); the brokering of the Camp David Accords ; the transition of Iran from an important U. S. client state to an anti-Western Islamic Republic, encouraging dissidents in Eastern Europe and emphasizing human rights in order to undermine the influence of the Soviet Union ; the financing of the mujahideen in Afghanistan in response to the Soviet deployment of forces there and the arming of these rebels to counter the Soviet invasion ; and the signing of the Torrijos-Carter Treaties relinquishing overt U. S. control of the Panama Canal after 1999.

Vance argued for less emphasis on human rights in order to gain Soviet agreement to Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ( SALT ), whereas Brzezinski favored doing both at the same time.

In 1984, as a result of the first series of Strategic Arms Reduction Treaties START I between the United States and the Soviet Union, SAC began to decommission its Titan II missile system.

Also, of serious concern were the Vietnamese takeover in Phnom Penh, the China-Vietnam border war, the overthrow of Idi Amin in Uganda, the North-South Yemen dispute, troubles in Pakistan, border clashes between Libya and Egypt, the Sandinista takeover in Nicaragua, and the Soviet movement of combat troops to Cuba during the signing of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty II.

* Opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment and Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

Under the provisions of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the Minuteman II system is being inactivated.

The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ( SALT ) refers to two rounds of bilateral talks and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union — the Cold War superpowers — on the issue of armament control.

SALT I is the common name for the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Agreement, also known as Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty.

Further discussion brought the negotiations to an end on May 26, 1972, in Moscow when Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev signed both the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and the Interim Agreement Between The United States of America and The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on Certain Measures With Respect to the Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms.

* Measures to Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms

U. S .- Soviet Talks Leading to the Interim Agreement on the Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms, 1969-1972, Pew Case Studies in International Affairs, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University, Washington, D. C., 1987

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Discussions led to the signing of the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty in Moscow on May 24, 2002.

After the end of the Cold War, the United States and the Russian Federation concluded the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty ( 2003 ) and the New START Treaty ( 2010 ).

* Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty ( SORT or Moscow Treaty )— signed 2002, into force 2003: A very loose treaty that is often criticized by arms control advocates for its ambiguity and lack of depth, Russia and the United States agreed to reduce their " strategic nuclear warheads " ( a term that remain undefined in the treaty ) to between 1, 700 and 2, 200 by 2012.

* Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty ( SORT )

This was further moved on by the Treaty on Strategic Offensive Reductions.

* Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty ( SORT ), signed 2002, entered into force 2003, expires 2012

* Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty, a treaty between the United States and the Russian Federation

Also in 1991, the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START, was officially formalized.

GFAFB's first ICBM silo was imploded in accordance with the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty ( START II ) in 1999 and the last silo imploded in 2001.

* October 6, 1999 The first missile silo was demolished in accordance with the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty ( START ).

In 1995 aircraft from Fairchild flew to Travis AFB, California in support of its first Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty ( START ) mission, transporting Russian inspectors to sites in the Western U. S. The wing has flown START missions in the U. S. every year since.