Froze the number of strategic ballistic missile launchers at existing levels.
What is SALT 1?
100
Definition of ABM
What is an anti ballistic missile that could destroy incoming enemy missiles to prevent harm?
100
Countries that did not sign.
What are the countries of Israel, India, Pakistan, and South Sudan.
100
Two leaders that played a role ending the Arms race.
Who are Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev.
100
Date created.
What happened in 1983?
200
Prohibited all test detonations of weapons except underground.
What is the partial nuclear test ban treaty(PNTBT)?
200
Significance of a SLBM.
What is the ability that the US and the Soviet Union could fire nuclear missiles from anywhere in the ocean and they are hard to track.
200
Country(ies) that withdrew
What is the country of North Korea
200
Reagan's "hard line" approach.
What is the idea that the SALT treaties are bad and that America needs to build up nuclear weapons and convential forces.
200
Budget for the first five years
What is 3.7 billion dollars
300
U.S. Senate never ratified this treaty.
What is SALT 2?
300
MAD
What is the theory that a full-scale of high-yield weapons of mass destruction would cause the complete annihilation of each other and created a balance of terror?
300
Terms of NNPT
What are non-proliferation, disarmament, and peaceful use.
300
Reagan's idea that the SALT treaties are bad led him to do these three things.
What are:
1. Refused to meet with Soviet negotiators
2. Increased military spending
3. STAR WARS
300
Purpose
What is to protect US land based missiles in the event that the Soviet Union struck first with its accurate land-based ICBMs.
400
Reduced the Soviet's heavy ICBM's by 50%.
What is START 1?
400
Limited nuclear war plus significance.
What is the idea as as a potential alternative to a full-scale nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union and the possibility that the fighting of a limited war would significantly increase the likelihood of escalation to total war.
400
Countries found in non-compliance.
Iraq, Iran, Libya, North Korea, and Romania.
400
Zero Option.
What is the idea that if the Soviets did not deploy missiles tan nether did the US.
400
Star Wars challenged this.
What is the underlying strategy of MAD.
500
The banning of AMB's in SALT 1 did this.
What reinforced the theory of MAD?
500
Significance of MIRV
What allows for a huge payload by having several warheads which can cover a large amount of area.
500
The way that the NNPT prevented the spread of nuclear weapons and technology.
What is the requirement of nations without nuclear weapons to not produce or receive them and to open their nuclear power facilities to inspection by the UN.
500
Fact used to explain that it was neither Reagan or Gorbachev that really helped to end the Cold War.
The circumstances existing: including the destruction of economies in both the US and Soviet Union and the removal of the Brezhnev Doctrine which sped up the loss of control over Eastern Europe.
500
Two problems with Star Wars
What are the problems including
1. To be effective it would have to be nearly perfect.
2. Escalated the Arms Race; the Soviets threatened to produce and ever-increasing number of warheads.