Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev sign Salt II treaty to reduce nuclear weapons

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Lucas Paul Richert (University of Saskatchewan)

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The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks opened in 1972 and negotiations lasted for a total of seven years. The principal reason that negotiations were so protracted had to do with the discrepancies in U.S. and Soviet weapons systems. The American military had focused on building up its stockpile of smaller, more accurate missile systems. The Soviet Union, by contrast, had focused on increasing its arsenal of missiles with large warheads. On 18 June 1979, Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brehznev signed an agreement called SALT II in Vienna. As finally constituted, the SALT II Treaty set restrictions on the number of strategic launchers (namely, missiles). Limits were also placed on multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRVs) intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and MIRVed…

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Citation: Richert, Lucas Paul. "Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev sign Salt II treaty to reduce nuclear weapons". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 October 2008 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=3692, accessed 26 November 2024.]

Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev sign Salt II treaty to reduce nuclear weapons

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