WJEC Eduqas GCSE USA History Practice Test

SALT I was a Cold War effort to slow the nuclear arms race by putting ceilings on certain strategic weapons rather than eliminating them or building a defensive shield. It was negotiated by the United States and the Soviet Union and signed in 1972, and it produced two main elements: the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, which limited defenses against missiles, and an Interim Agreement that capped the numbers of intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched ballistic missiles at existing levels. This combination shows that the agreement was about limiting arms, not deploying new ones or wiping them all out. The full name of this treaty is the First Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, so that option describes SALT I accurately. It wasn’t about creating a Mars-Plan deployment, it didn’t establish a broad missile defense shield, and it didn’t eliminate all strategic weapons.