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SALT I and the ABM Treaty are signed in Moscow

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Nixon and Brezhnev signed two instruments at once: an interim agreement freezing the numbers of strategic missile launchers for five years, and a treaty limiting anti-ballistic missile deployments to a very small number of sites. The pairing is the substance. Capping offensive forces was only acceptable to each side because the other had agreed to remain undefended, and both rested on verification by reconnaissance satellite, which each undertook not to obstruct.

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  1. Story
  2. Nixon and Brezhnev signed two instruments at once: an interim agreement freezing the numbers of strategic missile launchers for five years, and a treaty limiting anti-ballistic missile deployments to a very small number of sites. The pairing is the substance. Capping offensive forces was only acceptable to each side because the other had agreed to remain undefended, and both rested on verification by reconnaissance satellite, which each undertook not to obstruct.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Mutual assured destruction
  5. SALT I — the 1972 Interim Agreement on strategic offensive arms
  6. The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
  7. SALT I and the ABM Treaty are signed in Moscow
  8. Moscow
  9. Connections
  10. Moscow
  11. SALT I — the 1972 Interim Agreement on strategic offensive arms
  12. The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
  13. Mutual assured destruction
  14. Warsaw Treaty Organization
  15. SALT I and the ABM Treaty are signed in Moscow
  16. Trans-Siberian Railway
  17. Yaroslavsky Station, Moscow
  18. Russian Railways abandons Moscow time across the network
  19. SALT I and the ABM Treaty are signed in Moscow
  20. START I is signed in Moscow
  21. Mutual assured destruction
  22. SALT I and the ABM Treaty are signed in Moscow
  23. Reagan announces the Strategic Defense Initiative
  24. The Reykjavik summit
  25. The intercontinental ballistic missile
  26. Second-strike survivability
  27. The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
  28. SALT I and the ABM Treaty are signed in Moscow
  29. Reagan announces the Strategic Defense Initiative
  30. Evidence
  31. Supports the date and character of the SALT I offensive-arms freeze, its five-year term, its counting of launchers rather than warheads, and the use of national technical means for verification. V55 verification basis: NOT consulted; no launcher ceiling is quoted in this pack for that reason.
  32. Supports the limitation of ABM deployment areas and the reasoning that mutual vulnerability was being deliberately preserved, together with the treaty's termination on American withdrawal. V55 verification basis: NOT consulted; the site limits, the protocol date and the withdrawal dates are from standing knowledge and were not checked.
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