This article was originally published with the title “ The Limitation of Strategic Arms ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 222 No. 1 (January 1970), p. 19 doi:10.1038 ...

During the Cold War, the term strategic forces referred to nuclear weapons deployed on strategic delivery systems: intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), submarine-launched ballistic missiles ...

The bilateral Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT) began in the 1960s and led to the groundbreak SALT I treaty, the first to place limits on the nuclear disposition of the two countries.

On November 17, 1969, détente began to bear fruit with the opening in Helsinki of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) on nuclear weapons. But the Cold War had not yet thawed, and détente ...

TASS/. The US is still ready to discuss with Russia the issue of strategic arms limitation at any time, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday. "[The US is] ready to talk about ...

However, under the New Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, each submarine will have four of its missile tubes permanently deactivated in the coming years. The SSBN’s strategic weapon is the ...

hiding their true beliefs behind a façade of strategic language while grappling in private with the complex realities of the nuclear age. At a time when the Trump administration has just produced its ...