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- noun negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in 1969 in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons
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To that end, for most of the decade the U.S. and Soviet Union pursued Strategic Arms Limitation Talks.
Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould: America's Financial Armageddon and Afghanistan Paul Fitzgerald 2011
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To that end, for most of the decade the U.S. and Soviet Union pursued Strategic Arms Limitation Talks.
Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould: America's Financial Armageddon and Afghanistan Paul Fitzgerald 2011
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President Carter withdrew the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks treaty from Senate consideration in 1980 after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, which had hardened Republican and even some Democratic objections to an accord with Moscow.
Obama, Medvedev Sign Treaty to Cut Nuclear Arms Jonathan Weisman 2010
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And he presided over the most significant arms control treaties of the détente period: the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and the ABM treaty.
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And he presided over the most significant arms control treaties of the détente period: the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and the ABM treaty.
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- The U.S. signed the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks antiballistic missile treaties with the Soviet Union in 1972, expecting they would produce a "stable" balance and ultimately a reduction in nuclear armaments.
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While the only wars so far waged on behalf of the condiment have been nonviolent, it is ironic that one of most well known acronyms from the Cold War is SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks).
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His coworker was a Foothill Community College student who was taking a course in international relations, learning about the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks.
Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009
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Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was shopping for a bargaining chip he could use in the second round of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II).
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Simultaneously, Nixon pursued a policy of détente with the Soviet Union, leading to the signing of the SALT I (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) treaty during Nixon's visit to Moscow in May, 1972.
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