President Reagan and his top national security officials are debating whether the United States should scrap the SALT II treaty with the Soviet Union, and aides say a decision is expected by next ...

That tactic partly explains President Reagan`s tentative decision to continue complying with the unratified SALT II treaty on nuclear weapons. Over his entire career in politics, Reagan has made ...

On this day in 1980, President Jimmy Carter asked the Senate to postpone action on a Strategic Arms Limitation Talks treaty (SALT II) with the Soviet Union, which was aimed at curbing nuclear ...

The treaty on the Limitation of Antiballistic Missile ... and the U.S. desire for more comprehensive limitations on SALT II. A final agreement was signed on June 18, 1979 but expired in 1985 ...

A month after Reykjavik, in fact, the U.S. deployed a new B-52-based cruise missile system in violation of the 1979 SALT II Treaty. Hawks in Moscow were pressing for similar escalations.

On this day in 1980, President Jimmy Carter asked the Senate to postpone action on the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II ) Treaty, aimed at curbing nuclear weapons deployment by the world ...

Though his successor, Ronald Reagan, had campaigned against SALT II he adhered to it until it expired in 1985. The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, ABM, comprised one-half of the SALT I and II treaties.

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 ...

Carter had already signed the SALT II treaty in June 1979 after seven years of negotiations, but he asked the Senate to postpone action on it after the Soviet invasion. (While the treaty was never ...

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 ...