strategic arms limitation talks

1. 1.

   negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in 1969 in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons

   SynonymsSALT

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Questions about strategic arms limitation talks

What does strategic arms limitation talks mean?

strategic arms limitation talks means "negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in 1969 in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons".

What is another word for strategic arms limitation talks?

Close synonyms include SALT. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is strategic arms limitation talks a common word?

strategic arms limitation talks is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.