SALT II
Joint Statement of Principles and Basic Guidelines for Subsequent Negotiations on the Limitation of Strategic Arms (June 18, 1979)
TextIn June 1978, the United States and the Soviet Union reaffirm the importance of continuing the disarmament process in the area of strategic offensive weapons.
Cartoon by Behrendt on the SALT II disarmament agreement (4 May 1979)
ImageOn 4 May 1979, in the German daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the cartoonist, Behrendt, speculates on the genuine will of the US President, Jimmy Carter, and of the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev, to implement the SALT II disarmament agreement.
'Conflict deferred' from Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (10 May 1979)
TextOn 10 May 1979, the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung denounces the limited scope of the SALT II Treaty, signed in Vienna on 18 June 1979, and expresses its fears over how the nuclear arms race might end.
'Salt II: the great illusion of disarmament' from Der Spiegel (11 June 1979)
TextOn 11 June 1979, for German weekly publication Der Spiegel, the signature, on 18 June 1979 in Vienna, of the SALT II agreements on the limitation of strategic arms paradoxically leads the United States and the Soviet Union to continue the arms race.
Treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (June 18, 1979)
TextOn 18 June 1979, US President, Jimmy Carter, and Leonid Brejnev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, sign the SALT I Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty.
Protocol to the Treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (Vienna, 18 June 1979)
TextOn 18 June 1979, US President, Jimmy Carter, and Leonid Brejnev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, add an additional protocol to the SALT II Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty setting a series of precise ceilings for authorised weapons.
Memorandum of Understanding between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (June 18, 1979)
TextOn 18 June 1978, as part of the disarmament negotiations, the United States and the Soviet Union provide information on their respective strategic weapons.
Speech by Jimmy Carter (Washington, 18 June 1979)
TextOn 18 June 1979, a few hours after having signed, in Vienna, the SALT II agreements on the limitation of strategic nuclear weapons, the US President, Jimmy Carter, describes to the US Congress the significance of this new disarmament agreement.
Signing of the SALT II agreement (Vienna, 18 June 1979)
ImageOn 18 June 1979, US President Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, sign the SALT II Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty in Vienna.
'Carter plays down the Cuban Crisis to save the “SALT II” Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty' from Le Soir (3 October 1979)
TextOn 3 October 1979, the Belgian daily newspaper Le Soir describes the response of US President Jimmy Carter to the Soviet military presence in Cuba and the measures he intends to take in an endeavour to avoid the failure of the SALT II agreement on the limitation of strategic arms.