In 1979, U.S. President Carter and Soviet President Brezhnev signed the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) 2 Treaty in Vienna.

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In the summer of 1979, I led a delegation of senators to Moscow to discuss the second Strategic Arms Limitation Talks agreement (SALT II).

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Her certification of the Soviet leader's bona fides led to face-to-face meetings between Reagan and Gorbachev five times - an unprecedented figure between American and Soviet leaders - and genuine negotiations on Strategic Arms Limitation and human rights.

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Moscow, therefore, could treat this as an opportunity for leverage on other issues, whether it be missile defense as we discussed last week, NATO membership talks for Ukraine and Georgia, U.S.-Russia trade issues, or a new nuclear arms limitation treaty.

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The two countries announced on Wednesday that they had slashed their stockpile to levels set by the START-1 treaty, signed by Washington and Moscow in 1991, to 5, 518, well below the ceiling of 6, 000 established by the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty.

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In 1973, Wolfowitz, who had been teaching at Yale, joined the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, where he was among a group of hawks who reacted skeptically to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks agreement, which Henry Kissinger had negotiated with the Soviet Union.

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During the past year, we made important strides, including the successful NPT (Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons) Review Conference and the signing by the Russian Federation and the United States of a new START (Treaty on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms) treaty.

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The Treaty between the Russian Federation and the United States of America on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms signed in Prague on April 8, 2010, can operate and be viable only if the United States of America refrains from developing its missile defense capabilities quantitatively or qualitatively.

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In short, naval arms control is an excellent example of the degree to which weapons limitation or reduction agreements have become ends in themselves.

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