Major Acts: One of Richard M. Nixon’s greatest achievements was improving U.S. relations with China and the Soviet Union. With Henry Kissinger, he negotiated Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I) ...

Nixon aspired to be a great man ... Treaty and the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks — better known as the SALT agreements — limiting the deployment of anti-ballistic missile systems and ...

US president Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the Soviet Union, at the signing of SALT I in 1972 There were two Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) agreed between the USA and the ...

And détente survived the hijacking crisis; Nixon and Brezhnev signed the first SALT treaty limiting nuclear weapons in 1972, the same year Nixon made his famous visit to China.