SALT I (nov 17, 1969 – may 26, 1972)
Description:
Description: Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and U.S. President Richard Nixon, meeting in Moscow, sign the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) agreements. First, they limited the number of anti-ballistic missile (ABM) sites each country could have to two. (ABMs were missiles designed to destroy incoming missiles.) Second, the number of intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched ballistic missiles was frozen at existing levels.Significance: At the time, these agreements were the most far-reaching attempts to control nuclear weapons ever.
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Date:
nov 17, 1969
may 26, 1972
~ 2 years and 6 months