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STRATEGIC ARMS LIMITATION TALKS

STRATEGIC ARMS LIMITATION TALKS. In 1968 President Lyndon B. Johnson and Leonid I. Brezhnev, Soviet Communist party chairman, agreed to open the first of an eventual two Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT). By this time, the three basic issues that had stalled previous major Soviet-American disarmament agreements no longer posed problems. First, the d é tente that followed the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 improved the political climate greatly over the days of Joseph Stalin and Joseph R. McCarthy. Second, the development of the spy satellite made irrelevant the thorny issue of on-site inspections. Third, America's nuclear superiority over the ...

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