Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Department of State Bulletin, Vol. 78: April, 1978
The United States and the Soviet Union have been engaged in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks since the autumn of 1969. The goals of the United States at salt are the enhancement of national security, strategic stability, and detente through dialogue and agreements with the Soviet Union. The negotiations are aimed at the limitation and reduction of both offensive and defensive strategic arms. The first phase of negotiations (salt I) was concluded on May 26, 1972. On that date the President, on behalf of the us. Government, signed two agreements with the Soviet Union - the Treaty on the Limita tion of anti-ballistic Missile Systems and Interim Agreement on Certain Measures With Respect to the Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms for a 5-year period. Both the treaty and the Interim Agreement were approved by the Congress and entered into force on October 3, 1972. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
