Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

American  

noun

(used with a plural verb)

1. either of two preliminary five-year agreements between the U.S. and the Soviet Union for the control of certain nuclear weapons, the first concluded in 1972 SALT I and the second drafted in 1979 SALT II but not ratified.

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Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Cultural  

1. Negotiations started in Helsinki, Finland, in 1969 between the United States and the Soviet Union to limit the countries' stock of nuclear weapons. The treaties resulting from these negotiations are called SALT I and SALT II. These treaties have led to START (Strategic Arms Reduction Talks). START I (a 1991 agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union) and START II (a 1993 agreement between the United States and Russia) placed specific caps on each side's stock of nuclear weapons.

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Example Sentences

In 1969, the first round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks between the United States and the Soviet Union opened in Helsinki, Finland.

From Washington Times • Nov. 17, 2020

The 1974 Vladivostok accord added limits to the 1972 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Agreement without scrapping the earlier deal.

From Slate • Sep. 24, 2018

One of the book’s fans was New Yorker editor William Shawn, who commissioned from Mr. Newhouse a five-article series on the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks then going on between the Soviet Union and United States.

From Washington Post • Dec. 10, 2016

Their discussion began what were called the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, or SALT.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

Reagan Administration officials announced that the U.S. would continue to adhere to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks of the 1970s, although the agreements had lapsed.

From Time Magazine Archive