SALT I Treaty 1972
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- SALT I Treaty 1972
- arms should be limited including what types
- differing weapon systems in US and USSR made it DIFFICULT
- USA knew that newer technology was the only way to win the arms race
- Nixon's visit to China, Feb 1972, worried USSR
- USSR anxious to make agreement with US - security needs
- 3 agreement topics
- 1. ABM Treaty (anti-ballistic missiles)
- reduced tension caused by the destabilising impact of defensive systems
- limited ABM systems to two sites
- deterrence provided by the knowledge that the other side could strike back was maintained
- one system was allowed for the capital city and one to protect their nuclear missiles
- limited ABM systems to two sites
- deterrence provided by the knowledge that the other side could strike back was maintained
- limited ABM systems to two sites
- The Interim Treaty
- expired in 1977 (short-term treaty)
- limits placed on the number of ICBMs (Intercontinental ballistic missiles) and SLBMs (submarine-launched ballistic missiles) allowed
- USSR: 1,618 ICBMS and 740 SLBMs
- SU allowed more due to US having larger lead on strategic bombers
- US: 1,054 ICBMs and 740 SLBMs
- SU allowed more due to US having larger lead on strategic bombers
- USSR: 1,618 ICBMS and 740 SLBMs
- new technological developments were made - MIRVs (multiple independent re-entry vehicles)
- these carried multiple warheads on a single missile
- US and USSR could replace old missiles with new ones. The US had a technological advantage
- The Basic Principles Agreement
- basic important rules
- Trade was encouraged between the US and USSR
- US-USSR trade increased -- grain was sold to USSR during 1970s
- Trade was encouraged between the US and USSR
- The Seabed Pact, 1971, banned plaing warheads on the seabed
- Trade was encouraged between the US and USSR
- US-USSR trade increased -- grain was sold to USSR during 1970s
- Trade was encouraged between the US and USSR
- its aim was to minimise the development of nuclear war
- basic important rules
- 1. ABM Treaty (anti-ballistic missiles)
- Each superpower had enough nuclear weapons to destroy each other with several times
- it indicated a desire to want to avoid nuclear conflict
- Nixon visited Moscow in 1972. Brezhnev visisted Washington in 1973.
- "symbolic of the new accord between the superpowers"
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