Nuclear Treaties

Question 1

1968

Answer 1

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

Question 2

1972

Answer 2

Anti Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM)
Limits the countries’ deployment of missile defence systems to their national capital and one ICBM site

Question 3

May 26, 1972

Answer 3

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks I (SALT I)
Restricts the number of nuclear missile silos and submarine-launched missile tubes for a five-year period

Question 4

1979

Answer 4

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II (SALT II)
An agreement in 1979 in Vienna.
Not ratified in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which took place later that year.
The agreement expired on December 31, 1985, and was not renewed, although both sides continued to respect it.

Question 5

1983

Answer 5

Reagan proposes START – which seeks deep cuts in warhead counts and delivery vehicles.
In the same year, Reagan unveiled the SDI initiative – heightened Soviet wariness.

Question 6

1986

Answer 6

Reykjavik Summit
Talks stalled due to Reagan’s unwillingness to give up on SDI but the measures discussed paved the way for future nuclear diplomacy

Question 7

1987

Answer 7

INF Treaty signed (after Gorbachev agreed to exclude the SDI from the treaty)
Agreeing to eliminate by 1991 their countries’ arsenals of ground-launched, mid range nuclear missiles (ranging from about 300 to 3,400 miles).
The first agreement to reduce nuclear arms—as opposed to setting ceilings—and it introduces comprehensive verification measures.

Question 8

July 1991

Answer 8

Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I) signed
The agreement is a success as both sides, which each had more than ten thousand deployed warheads in 1990, pledge to reduce their arsenals to well below six thousand by 2009.