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 ).

* 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.

* Interim Agreement on Offensive Arms ( SALT I ) 1972: The Soviet Union and the United States agreed to a freeze in the number of intercontinental ballistic missiles ( ICBMs ) and submarine-launched ballistic missiles ( SLBMs ) that they would deploy.

* 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.

* 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.

** Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT I treaty in Moscow, as well as the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and other agreements.

* Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty ( SALT I ), signed and ratified 1972, in force 1972-1977

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.

" Laird supported the strategic arms talks leading to the SALT I agreements with the Soviet Union in 1972: a five-year moratorium against expansion of strategic nuclear delivery systems, and an antiballistic missile treaty limiting each side to two sites ( later cut to one ) for deployed ABM systems.

As Laird put it, " In terms of United States strategic objectives, SALT I improved our deterrent posture, braked the rapid buildup of Soviet strategic forces, and permitted us to continue those programs which are essential to maintaining the sufficiency of our long-term strategic nuclear deterrent.

There were two rounds of talks and agreements: SALT I and SALT II.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Following Vance's visit to Moscow in March 1977 to present new arms control proposals, which the Soviet leadership abruptly rejected, the SCC developed and refined arms control proposals for U. S. negotiators at the SALT talks in Geneva.

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

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.

The SALT II pact of the late 1970s continued the work of the SALT I talks, ensuring further reduction in arms by the Soviets and by the US.

Among the primary issues he focused on were American-Soviet relations, including the SALT nuclear weapons talks, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Iran hostage crisis, presidential directives on the situation in the Persian Gulf, terrorism and hijackings, and the executive order on telecommunications policy.

The SALT I talks began in 1969, and led to the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in 1972, which ultimately limited the U. S. and U. S. S. R. to one defensive missile site each, with no more than 100 missiles per site.

The motivation for it was provided by Dr. Richard L. Garwin at IBM Watson Research who was concerned about verifying a Nuclear arms treaty with the Soviet Union for the SALT talks.

An agreement by Gorbachev to on-site inspections, a continuing American demand which had not been achieved in the Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1963 or the ABM and SALT I pacts of 1972, constituted a significant step forward, and foreshadowed Russian openness to such testing in future talks.

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.

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.

Almost immediately, the Soviet Union also invited Nixon for a visit, and improved US-Soviet relations led to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ( SALT ).

This ultimately led to the signing of the SALT I treaty in 1972.

Research using SALT at the South African Astronomical Observatory has led the facility to important discoveries.

The 1979 SALT II agreement with the Soviet Union led to a vigorous debate ( and subsequent rejection by Congress of the treaty ) which illustrated how far the United States military had fallen into disrepair during the 1970s.

These Strategic Arms Limitation Talks resulted in two landmark arms control treaties: SALT I, the first comprehensive limitation pact signed by the two superpowers, and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which banned the development of systems designed to intercept incoming missiles.

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

SANE would go on to criticize the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and SALT agreements for ignoring offensive strategic weapons.

Less powerful countries had more room to assert their independence, and the two superpowers were partially able to recognize their common interest in trying to check the further spread and proliferation of nuclear weapons ( see SALT I, SALT II, Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty ).

SALT I, the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, the Helsinki Accords, and other international agreements were negotiated during this time.

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.

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.

The SALT II Treaty banned new missile programs ( a new missile defined as one with any key parameter 5 % better than in currently deployed missiles ), so both sides were forced to limit their new strategic missile types development.

* Clearwater, John Murray, Johnson, McNamara, and the Birth of SALT and the ABM Treaty, 1963-1969 ( Dissertation. Com, 1999 ) ISBN 978-1581120622

After the China trip, Nixon met Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and signed the SALT Treaty in Vienna.

In foreign affairs, Carter's accomplishments consisted of the Camp David Accords, the Panama Canal Treaties, the creation of full diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China, and the negotiation of the SALT II Treaty.

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.

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.