1st Edition
US Strategic Arms Policy in the Cold War Negotiation and Confrontation over SALT, 1969-1979
By David Tal
Copyright 2017
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines the negotiations between the USA and the USSR on the limitation of strategic arms during the Cold War, from 1969 to 1979. The negotiations on the limitation of strategic arms, which were concluded in two agreements SALT I and SALT II (with only the first ratified), marked a major change in the history of arms control negotiations. For the first time, in the relatively short... Read more
Introduction
1. SALT: The New Era: Nixon’s Years
2. SALT Begins
3. From Stalemate to Breakthrough, Summer 1970- 1971
4. Negotiating ABM
5. The Road to Moscow
6. Nixon in Moscow, May 1972
7. SALT Resume
8. From Summit (6/1973) to Summit (1974)
9. "From the Glamorous Times of Détente into a Time of Testing" - Ford in Power
10. The Demise of SALT II
11. Carter
12. The Fall & Rise of SALT II
Conclusion
Biography
David Tal is the Yossi Harel Chair in Modern Israel Studies at the University of Sussex, UK and author of The American Nuclear Disarmament Dilemma, 1945–1963 (2008) and War in Palestine 1948: Strategy and Diplomacy (2004).
"This book is a timely, well-researched and finely articulated account on the history of the SALT process of arms control. Broad in scope and drawing from an impressive wealth of archival sources, the book details how technology and personality influenced US and Soviet arms control policies." Stephan Kieninger, Mannheim University
