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Recommendation for the Strategic Arms Limitation Talk (SALT)
In 1967 Lyndon B. Johnson recommended the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks or SALT to reduce the amount of missiles. -
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Agreed
In the summer of 1968 Strategic arms Limitation Talks were agreed by the two superpowers. -
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Begin
In 1969 the Strategic Arms Limitation talks begin with full scale negotiating. -
SALT 1 signed with ABM
In SALT 1 there were many different complex agreements one of them was the ABM (Treaty of Anti-Ballistic Missiles) This agreement regulated the amount of anti-ballistic missiles that could destroy incoming ballistic missiles launched by other superpowers. This treaty limited the number of these missiles to one deployment area and 100 interceptor missiles. This left most of the place you were defending not much defense. -
ABM treaty ratified by US Senate
The ABM treaty was ratified by congress on August 3 1972. The picture below shows President Nixon with Communist party leader Leonid Brezhnev after signing the ABM in Moscow. -
SALT 2 Negotiations Begin
The SALT 2 negotiations began in late 1972 and continued on for several years. Some of the problems with the negotiating was "the asymmetry between the strategic forces of the two countries." Another one was the U.S.S.R. focused on large nuclear warheads but America was making new smaller rockets. The picture down below is the place where SALT 2 was signed, Vienna. -
SALT 2 Conditions
Some of the SALT 2 conditions was the limit on strategic launchers. "In example missiles that can be equipped with multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles [MIRVs]." Limits were also on MIRVed, ICBMs, MIRVed SLBMs,heavy bombers. This treaty set an overall limit of about 2,400 of all such weapons on each side. -
SALT 2 signed by President
In June 18 1979, President Jimmy Carter and Brezhnev in Vienna signed SALT 2 and was submitted to the U.S. Senate for ratification shortly thereafter. The picture down below is Leonid Brezhnev who is the general secretary for the Soviet Communist Party. -
Soviet Union invade Afganistan
At the end of December the Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and assumed complete military and political control. The Soviet Union did this to subdue the Afghan Civil war and to maintain a friendly and socialist government on its border. The picture down below is Soviet Combat vehicle moving through Afghanistan. -
SALT 2 removed from Senate consideration
Renewed tensions between the two superpowers worried carter and he removed the treaty from Senate consideration in January 1980, after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan.
