Subsequent talks, called SALT II, were held from 1972 to 1979 and actually reduced the number of nuclear warheads held by the USA and USSR.

SALT II was never ratified by the United States Senate, but its terms were nevertheless honored by both sides until 1986, when the Reagan administration " withdrew " after accusing the USSR of violating the pact.

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 ).

* 1979 – SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.

* 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.

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.

* June 18 – Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT II agreement in Vienna.

The SALT II talks started in 1972 leading to agreement in 1979.

* SALT II signed 1979, never entered into force

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 felt that Brzezinski's linkage of SALT to other Soviet activities and the MX, together with the growing domestic criticisms in the United States of the SALT II Accord, convinced Brezhnev to decide on military intervention in Afghanistan.

Only then did he decide to abandon SALT II ratification and pursue the anti-Soviet policies that Brzezinski proposed.

Leonid Brezhnev and Jimmy Carter sign SALT II treaty, June 18, 1979, in Vienna.

The President's personal commitment to SALT II ultimately overcame fundamental differences between the National Security Adviser and the Secretary of State.

When the SALT II negotiations with the Soviet Union verged on success, an NSC working group, including a Department of State representative, formulated the subject areas for an agenda at the Vienna Summit of June 1979, at which Carter and Brezhnev signed the SALT II Treaty and discussed other bilateral and Third World issues.

Much of the SCC's time during the Carter years was spent on SALT issues.

This meant that Brzezinski was given oversight responsibility for the SALT negotiations, which became an important focus of the Carter administration's foreign policy.

Also during the 1970s, the Soviet Union reached the peak of its political influence in comparison to the U. S. as the SALT I treaty was created to cooperate in matters of nuclear weapons and technology between the two nations.

In 1963, Waite was appointed Education Advisor to the Anglican Bishop of Bristol, Oliver Tomkins, and assisted with Tomkins's implementation of the SALT ( Stewardship and Laity Training ) programme in the diocese, along with the Rev.

After a long deadlock, the first results of SALT I came in May 1971, when an agreement was reached over ABM systems.

It was a continuation of the progress made during the SALT I talks, led by representatives from both countries.

SALT II was the first nuclear arms treaty which assumed real reductions in strategic forces to 2, 250 of all categories of delivery vehicles on both sides.

Nike Hercules was included in SALT I discussions as an ABM.

Jackson also led the opposition within the Democratic Party against the SALT II treaty, and was one of the leading proponents of increased foreign aid to Israel.

His doctoral thesis was published as SALT on the Dragon's Tail.

The period was characterized by the signing of treaties such as the SALT I and the Helsinki Accords.

SALT II was discussed but never ratified by the United States.

In the same year that SALT I was signed, the Biological Weapons Convention and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty were also concluded.

A response to the SALT statement was made by Suzanne Darrow-Kleinhau in The Bar Examiner

In 1979, he was appointed by U. S. Senator John Tower to the staff of the Senate Armed Services Committee, where he was responsible for staffing Senate consideration of the SALT II Treaty from 1979 to 1981.

SALT I was a major step towards limiting the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

SORT was one in a long line of treaties and negotiations on mutual nuclear disarmament between Russia ( and its predecessor, the Soviet Union ) and the United States, which includes SALT I ( 1969 – 1972 ), the ABM Treaty ( 1972 ), SALT II ( 1972 – 1979 ), the INF Treaty ( 1987 ), START I ( 1991 ), START II ( 1993 ) and New START ( 2010 ).

In 1979, Yost was co-chairman of Americans for SALT II, a group that lobbied the Senate for passage of the second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty.

The Amendment was subject to extensive litigation in 2003 by plaintiffs FAIR and SALT.

* 1969 – Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.

* November 17 – Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki, to begin the SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.

He took part in the strategic arms negotiations with the Soviet Union and supported ( unsuccessfully ), ratification of the SALT II treaty.

* Interview about the SALT I negotiations for the WGBH series War and Peace in the Nuclear Age

Reagan, also announced the term " START " for upcoming negotiations in Vienna, with the goal being a Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, going beyond SALT ( Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty ) negotiations.

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.

A second round of talks between Soviet premier Brezhnev and President Carter yielded the SALT II treaty in June 1979.

SALT I led to the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and an interim agreement between the two powers.

Carnesale served as part of the U. S. delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ( SALT I ) with the Soviet Union held between 1970 and 1972.

* May 26: Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ( SALT I ) agreement signals the beginning of détente between the U. S. and USSR.