In May, 1972, President Nixon and Soviet Chairman Brezhnev culminated three years of intense negotiation by signing two landmark agreements, The Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems and the Interim Agreement With Respect to the Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms. Because these agreements resulted from the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks, they have come to be known as the ... read moreSALT agreements. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the political processes that produced the SALT agreements.
Thesis submitted to the Department of Political Science and the Faculty Committee on Honors in partial fulfillment of the requirements for graduation with honors in political science. Washington and Jefferson College, May 1, 1974.read less
