US - USSR Arms Control
HIn 1954 and
again in 1959, the USSR suggested total disarmament and destruction of nuclear stockpiles, but this was mostly for propaganda value.
HIn 1963 the
Soviet Union signed a treaty with the United States and Great Britain prohibiting all nuclear tests except underground.
HThe
USSR also joined the
United States in agreeing to keep outer space free of armaments.
HA series of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) between the two powers, begun in 1969, resulted in
agreements in 1972, 1974, and 1979, placing quantitative and qualitative limits on nuclear weapons arsenals and
delivery systems.
