Sentence examples for agreement salt from inspiring English sources

In the summer of 1979, I led a delegation of senators to Moscow to discuss the second Strategic Arms Limitation Talks agreement (SALT II).

Of the resulting complex of agreements (SALT I), the most important were the Treaty on Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Systems and the Interim Agreement and Protocol on Limitation of Strategic Offensive Weapons.

These sectors are included in the present agreement of salt reduction as well.

The opposition has fuelled several wars - in Korea, Vietnam, the Middle East, and the cooperation has led to summit conferences, and, more recently, to the SALT agreements; other agreements making up detente.

Both houses have acted under Article I to approve key national security accords, like the SALT agreement with the Russians or the recent United States-India nuclear agreement.

The arms buildup that followed each SALT agreement has led to the Russians' gaining first-strike capability-without violating the agreement.

U.S. reaction against the trials is so strong that even if Carter can negotiate a new SALT agreement, the Senate may reject it.

The preliminary SALT agreement appeared to be a significant achievement, but there was in some ways less to it than met the eye.

President Nixon and Henry Kissinger reached their apogee in 1972 with their dramatic and well-televised trip to China, the Moscow summit with its SALT agreement and Mr Kissinger's somewhat premature announcement that peace was at hand in Vietnam.

The first agreements, known as SALT I and SALT II, were signed by the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1972 and 1979, respectively, and were intended to restrain the arms race in strategic (long-range or intercontinental) ballistic missiles armed with nuclear weapons.

Another part of the SALT I agreement froze the number of each side's ICBMs and submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) at current levels.