SALT II Treaty, 1979
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- SALT II Treaty 1979
- set equal limits for missile launchers and strategic bombers
- it left out cruise missiles - USA had an advantage
- set equal limits for missile launchers and strategic bombers
- many right-wing Senators saw the arms control as being a Treaty that allowed the USSR to catch up with their nuclear developments
- too powerful for President Ford to ignore. Carter became President, 1977
- Carter wanted to renegotiate the terms of SALT II Treaty to reduce Soviet missile numbers
- many right-wing Senators saw the arms control as being a Treaty that allowed the USSR to catch up with their nuclear developments
- too powerful for President Ford to ignore. Carter became President, 1977
- Carter wanted to renegotiate the terms of SALT II Treaty to reduce Soviet missile numbers
- 1979 - exact firgure was agreed
- SALT II Treaty 1979
- it left out cruise missiles - USA had an advantage
- Signed by Carter and Brezhnev, June 1979, Vienna Summit
- "highly technical and detailed"
- Ralph Levering: it wasn't understood by "the average senator"
- US worried that Brezhnev wasn't fully aware of the Treaty's terms
- "highly technical and detailed"
- Ralph Levering: it wasn't understood by "the average senator"
- US worried that Brezhnev wasn't fully aware of the Treaty's terms
- US find it hard to trust the USSR
- US worried that Brezhnev wasn't fully aware of the Treaty's terms
- Ralph Levering: it wasn't understood by "the average senator"
- US find it hard to trust the USSR
- "highly technical and detailed"
- US worried that Brezhnev wasn't fully aware of the Treaty's terms
- Ralph Levering: it wasn't understood by "the average senator"
- Conflict in Iran, Angola and Afghanistan, 1979/80
- Senate rejected SALT II in 1980 because of this
- it left out cruise missiles - USA had an advantage
- SALT II Treaty 1979
- 1979 - exact firgure was agreed
- Carter wanted to renegotiate the terms of SALT II Treaty to reduce Soviet missile numbers
- too powerful for President Ford to ignore. Carter became President, 1977
- 1979 - exact firgure was agreed
- many right-wing Senators saw the arms control as being a Treaty that allowed the USSR to catch up with their nuclear developments
- Carter wanted to renegotiate the terms of SALT II Treaty to reduce Soviet missile numbers
- too powerful for President Ford to ignore. Carter became President, 1977
- Signed by Carter and Brezhnev, June 1979, Vienna Summit
- Conflict in Iran, Angola and Afghanistan, 1979/80
- Senate rejected SALT II in 1980 because of this
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