Salt-II 1979SALT-II is a nuclear
treaty between the
United States and the former
Soviet Union that put into place a ceiling of 2,250 delivery vehicles (long range bombers,
ICBMs and
SLBMs) that the United States and the
Soviet Union could each have at any given time. The agreement forced the Soviet Union to
destroy 250 existing vehicles in excess of the alloted. The United States however was able to build up its
supply, because they only had 2060 at the time of the
agreement.
The agreement however had no effect on
nuclear warheads, where the United States had a clear advantage, 9,200 to the Soviet Union's 5000.