Treaty negotiated by the Johnson and Nixon Administrations and the 1979 SALT II Treaty negotiated by the Nixon, Ford, and Carter Administrations resulted in some limits on strategic nuclear forces ...

Although SALT II was never ratified, it provided another important stepping stone to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaties (START). START I was ratified in July of 1991 between the U.S. and the ...

SALT II was signed by Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev. It limited the numbers of long-range missiles and heavy bombers each side could deploy. The U.S. Senate refused to ratify the treaty because ...

Considered strategically destabilizing, the development of orbital weapon systems was largely halted by the US-Soviet SALT II Treaty in 1979. Reports on Wednesday about Russia’s advances on ...

The Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (“SALT”) II signed by President Carter and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev on June 18, 1979. The US and Soviet Union worked on arms control since 1969.