may 26, 1972 - Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) Treaty: 26 May 1972 The U.S. president, Richard Nixon, and the Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev, met in Moscow to make a treaty to put restraint on the amount of nuclear weapons made and warheads they could contain. It did no stop the making of weapons, it just slowed it down.
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may 26, 1972
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~ 53 years ago