Disarmament: Utopian Concept or Imperative of the Post-Wilson Era?

... signed: the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM Treaty) in 1972 and the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks treaties (SALT I and SALT II) in 1972 and 1979. A number of other agreements were also signed: the cornerstone 1968 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation ... ... idea of military superiority and agreed to parity by reducing its arsenals by 34,700 units, four times the number reduced by NATO (8,700 units)[ 3 ]. Under the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I Treaty), the USSR and the United States reduced ...