COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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US and Cuba
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Cuba and USSR
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US and USSR
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USSR and Korea
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) were a series of bilateral conferences and international treaties signed between the United States and the Soviet Union. These treaties had the goal of reducing the number of long-range ballistic missiles (strategic arms) that each side could possess and manufacture.
Detailed explanation-3: -On June 17, 1979, Carter and Brezhnev signed the SALT II Treaty in Vienna. SALT II limited the total of both nations’ nuclear forces to 2, 250 delivery vehicles and placed a variety of other restrictions on deployed strategic nuclear forces, including MIRVs.