Firstly, even though there were many people participating in the S.A.L.T., it is most important to look at the heads of these talks. President Johnson was the first president to make a meaningful decision on the topic of the S.A.L.T because of his realization that the Soviet Union was using ABMs (Anti-Ballistic Missiles) used as defensive missiles. President Nixon, Johnson’s successor, started the first S.A.L.T officially on November 17, 1969 in Helsinki, Finland. …show more content…
These conferences were motivated by multiple situations, but mostly the talks were catalysed by the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13 day confrontation between the two nations about the deployment of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba. Other reasons for U.S.A. and the Soviet Union to begin conferences would be because of the Soviet Union announcing the deployment of of Anti- Ballistic Missiles around Moscow, and the economic strain both governments were putting on their economies from vast military funding by the governments. S.A.L.T I brought about the goals of these talks by limiting ABM missiles in the ABM Treaty and the Interim SALT Agreement, which halted all production of nuclear weapons for further negotiations and competition. These talks also started the detente or the ease of hostility between nations that really helped on the overall return to a more safe