Cold War: S.A.L.T. 2 Negotiations

This was between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. represented by President Carer and General Secretary Brezhnev.
This occur d on June 18, 1979 in Vienna, Austria
This was the second meeting of the Active negotiations on Strategic offensive arms, due to interim Agreement.
The Primary Goal was to replace the Interim Agreement with a long term comprehensive Treaty providing broad limits on strategic offensive weapon systems.
As well as to provide equal number of strategic nuclear delivery vehicles for each side.
To start the precess in which to reduce these vehicles.
And to put more restraints on qualitative developments which could threaten a future stability.
The S.A.L.T. 2 agreement was signed and President Carter sent it to the Senate on June 22 for its advice and consent to ratification.
The agreement was in three parts:

a treaty on which would be infoced through 1985 based on the Vladivostok accord.
A protocol of about three year duration which would cover cerrtain issues such as cruise missle and constraitns, mobile ICBM's, while deferring further negiotitations on those issues to S.A.L.T. 3.

This overal was a jouint statment of priniciples on which would be an agreeed set of guidelines for future generaltions.

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