COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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led to a large number of nuclear weapons being removed
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stopped both sides from making any new nuclear weapons
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decreased the number of weapons being made
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ended the Cold War
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Detailed explanation-1: -Official discussions began in 1969 between Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev . In 1972, the two countries signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and the Interim Agreement and Protocol on Limitation of Strategic Defense Weapons (SALT I) that limited the number of ABM defenses and missile defense sites.
Detailed explanation-2: -Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union that were aimed at curtailing the manufacture of strategic missiles capable of carrying nuclear weapons.
Detailed explanation-3: -SALT I is considered the crowning achievement of the Nixon-Kissinger strategy of détente. The ABM Treaty limited strategic missile defenses to 200 interceptors each and allowed each side to construct two missile defense sites, one to protect the national capital, the other to protect one ICBM field.
Detailed explanation-4: -Fifty years ago, on Nov. 17, 1969, the United States and the Soviet Union launched the first-ever Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) in Helsinki, Finland.
Detailed explanation-5: -One of the terms of the treaty required both countries to limit the number of deployment sites protected by an anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system to one each. The idea of that system was to prevent a competition in ABM deployment between the United States and the Soviet Union.