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US and Soviet Union sign a biological weapns ban treaty
first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of an entire category of weapons -
Nixon and Brezhnev sign SALT I treaty
SALT: strategic army limitations talks was the agreement that signaled the beginning of dentene between the Soviets and US -
SALT II treaty
SALT II treaty is agreed on by Jimmy Carter and Brezhnev, which limits each country to 24 hundred nuclear arms launchers. -
Reagan proposes the Strategic Defence Initiative
SDI was to use ground and space bases systems to protect US from attacks by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles
