Foreign Relations of the United States, Volume 32The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks produced a series of comprehensive arms control agreements between the United States and the Soviet Union that for the first time limited the deployment of ballistic missiles and anti-ballistic missile systems. Commonly referred to as "SALT I," the agreements were signed by President Richard Nixon and the General Secretary of the Soviet Union Leonid Brezhnev at the Moscow Summit in May 1972. This volume documents the negotiations leading up to the agreement, the internal deliberations among U.S. policy makers, and reveals the play of political and national security considerations that factored into U.S. policy decisions.
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... Smith Files , Correspondence for and by Smith on MIRVs , ABM , and other Arms Control Issues , February - December 1969. Secret . 2 In his letter to Packard , May 22 , Smith wrote , " I have been thinking about the points that you made ...
... Smith / Farley Chronological File , Smith / Rogers Correspondence , February 1969 – May 1971 ) In his memoirs , Smith explained the final decision on the location : " The Soviets naturally pounced on the idea of Helsinki , almost at ...
... Smith thought that the first NSC meeting would be largely educa- tional and would produce no specific negotiating ... Smith more flexibility , using the packages not as directives but rather as il- lustrations of general objectives ...
... Smith found this procedure satisfactory , and , if the JCS agreed , he suggested option 1 to illustrate a limited ... Smith's suggestions on which options to use as illustrations , he did not believe that SWWA should be part of NSSM 28 ...
... Smith replied that he did not , but J. Smith wished to reserve on this question . He wondered about the symmetry of the paper , with Soviet concerns getting fuller treatment than our own in the Nutter paragraph . The summary report ...