محادثات الحد من الأسلحة الاستراتيجية (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ‏سالت SALT) كانت دورتين من المؤتمرات الثنائية والمعاهدات الدولية المناظرة بين الولايات المتحدة والاتحاد السوڤيتي—القوى العظمى في الحرب الباردة—حول قضية الحد من التسلح. دورتا المحادثات والاتفاقيات كانتا سالت-1 SALT I وسالت-2 SALT II.

بدأت المفاوضات في هلسنكي، فنلندا، في نوفمبر 1969. سالت-1 أفضت إلى معاهدة الصواريخ المضادة للبالستية واتفاقية مؤقتة بين البلدين. وبالرغم من حتى سالت-2 أسفرت عن اتفاقية في 1979، إلا حتى مجلس الشيوخ الأمريكي اختار ألا يصدّق على المعاهدة رداً على الحرب السوڤيتية في أفغانستان، التي نشبت لاحقاً في ذلك العام. المجلس التشريعي السوڤيتي لم يصدّق، بدوره. الاتفاقية انقضت مدتها في 31 ديسمبر 1985 ولم تُجدد.

A belief commonly held during this time was that the Helsinki negotiations were designed to completely terminate the military rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union, or result in ultimate cooperation between the two countries. This was not the case, considering neither of the countries were ready to disarm themselves, rendering themselves totally vulnerable to the opposing side.

The talks led to the STARTs, or Strategic Arms Reduction Treaties, which consisted of START I (a 1991 completed agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union) and START II (a 1993 agreement between the United States and Russia, which was never ratified by the United States), both of which proposed limits on multiple-warhead capacities and other restrictions on each side's number of nuclear weapons. A successor to START I, New START, was proposed and was eventually ratified في فبراير 2011.

سالت-2

موقف ريگان من سالت-2

SALT II was devised during the ادارة كارتر. His goal was to continually strengthen the regulations proposed in SALT I and push forward into more advanced future arms control plans. However, when Ronald Reagan took office, he openly criticized the quality of the SALT II plan. According to President Reagan, SALT II contained fundamental errors that needed to be addressed. This open criticism of the past president’s foreign policy plan was an unusual occurrence, and it resulted in the overall rejection of SALT II. It is usually customary for a president to reassess their predecessor’s foreign policy plans and make adjustments based on what is going on in the world.

Despite Reagan’s criticism and SALT II’s inability to become ratified by the US Congress, his administration continued to follow to the terms laid out in the treaty until November 1986.

قرار ريگان لإتباع سالت-2

بدون سالت

Without the SALT agreements providing stability between the United States and the Soviet Union arms restraints, there would have been the scare of yet another strategic arms race between these two countries. The Soviet Union had deployed some 2,250 nuclear delivery vehicles and were capable of producing and deploying many more missiles by the middle of the 1980's. If this was to occur, the United States would then begin to retain the equipment necessary to build and increase their production of missiles to match that of the Soviet Union. This would increase the costs and security over the United States, nonetheless, making sure that neither side reached ultimate superiority over the other. In addition, the failure of SALT consequently would have led to "increased political insecurity, and the inherent instability of an unrestrained, and more costly, strategic arms competition".

انظر أيضاً

• Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
• Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
• Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
• START
• New START
• Threshold Test Ban Treaty

الهامش

ببليوگرافيا

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وصلات خارجية

• Text of SALT I
• Text of SALT II
• Text of SALT II (cont.)
• Text of the treaty from the U.S. Department of State
• NuclearFiles.org Text of SALT II 1979
• Arms Control Today: U.S.-Soviet/Russian Nuclear Arms Control, June 2002.
• Soviet Violations from the Dean Peter Krogh Foreign Affairs Digital Archives
• Annotated bibliography on the SALT treaties from the Alsos Digital Library