Zusammenfassung der Ressource
SALT I (1972)
SALT II (1979)
- Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems -
the USSR and the USA attempt to limit the nuclear hazard
and reduce hostility.
- The treaty limited each side to only one ABM deployment
area, and 100 interceptor missiles.
- The interim agreement froze each sides number of ICBMs and
submarine-launched ballistic missiles at current levels for five
years.
- SALT II negotiations opened late in 1972 and set limits
on the number of strategic launchers. Limits were put
on a number of MIRVed ICBMs, MIRVed SLBMs and
the total number of strategic launchers. The treaty set
an over-all limit of 24,000 weapon systems for each
side.
- The SALT II treaty was signed by
Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev
in Vienna in 1979.
- The US chose not to ratify the treaty due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.