In April 1970, Kurt Waldheim (centre of podium), Austrian Foreign Minister, welcomes US and Soviet delegations to Vienna for disarmament talks.

On 20 April 1970, the US and Soviet delegations meet at Belvedere Palace in Vienna for negotiations on the SALT I agreement on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons.

On 20 July 1970, German daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung analyses the reasons for the deadlock in negotiations between the United States and the USSR on disarmament, and expresses concern over the risk of a renewed world arms race.

On 26 May 1972, in Moscow, the US President, Richard Nixon, and his Soviet counterpart, Leonid Brezhnev, sign an ABM agreement limiting anti-ballistic defense missiles with nuclear warheads.

On 28 and 29 May 1972, following the signing by the United States and the Soviet Union of the Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems, the French daily newspaper Le Monde describes the current situation regarding the ‘arms race’ and lists the measures announced to limit nuclear weapons.

In July 1972, the French monthly newspaper Le Monde Diplomatique analyses the scope of the SALT I Agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union, signed in Moscow on 26 May 1972, which limits anti-ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads.

On 25 January 1973, despite the signing, in May 1972, of the SALT I agreement on the limitation of offensive nuclear weapons, the cartoonist, Lang, believes that the future of the disarmament process between the United States and the Soviet Union remains at risk.

On 23 September 1974, the German daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung considers the true purpose of negotiations between the US and the USSR on disarmament and condemns the risked to the world posed by nuclear weapons.

Dans ses Mémoires, Henry Kissinger, ancien secrétaire d'État américain, rappelle la complexité des négociations entre les États-Unis et l'Union soviétique au sujet de la limitation des armes stratégiques et souligne l'impact de ces négociations sur le concept américain de défense nationale.

‘You can go first …’ On 26 February 1977, as the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) are held, Dutch-born cartoonist Fritz Behrendt paints an ironic picture of the continuing mistrust between the United States (on the left, President Carter) and the Soviet Union (on the right, Soviet leader Brezhnev) with regard to disarmament.