Shopping on line can be easy, simple and save you lots of money. It can also take a lot of your time, frustrate you, and result in unwanted purchases. Now the same can be said for regular high street shopping, but with the vast opportunity presented by the Internet it will pay you to spend a few minutes reading this and understanding how to better optimize your Salt shopping experience:
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2. Research - if it has been said it will be on the internet. Ignorance is no longer a justifiable reason for buying the wrong thing. Take the time to research in detail everything that you could possible want to know about
3. Testimonials - don't know anybody that has bought a Salt? Wrong! If the Salt is good the internet will let you know. Use the Internet as a friend and get testimonials before you buy.
4. Questions - Got a question about Salt then search the Forums, FAQ's, Blogs etc. Don't be afraid to ask .....
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6. Returns - still worried that even after all of the above your Salt wont be what you want? Check out the returns policy. There is so much competition now that someone, somewhere is bound to offer the terms that you are comfortable with.
7. Feedback - happy with your Salt then let people know, after all you are depending on others people input in your buying decision, so why not give a little back.
8. Security - check for the yellow padlock on the Salt site before you buy, and the s after http:/ /i.e. https:// = a secure site
9. Contact - got a question about Salt, or want to leave a comment then check out the sites contact page. Reputable companies have them and respond.
10. Payment - ready to pay for your Salt, then use your credit card or PayPal! Be aware of companies that don't accept them, there may be genuine reasons but given the huge amount of choice you have when buying online there is no reason at all not to buy via credit card or PayPal.
The
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaties refers to tworounds of Bilateralism talks and corresponding international treaties between the
Soviet Union and the United States--the
Cold War superpowers--on the issue of
arms race. There were two rounds of talks and agreements:
SALT I and
SALT II. SALT II later became
START.Negotiations started in
Helsinki,
Finland, in 1969 and focused on limiting the two countries' stocks of nuclear weapons. These treaties have led to START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty). START I (a 1991 agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union) and
START II (a 1993 agreement between the United States and Russia) placed specific caps on each side's number of nuclear weapons.
SALT I
SALT I is the common name for the
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty Agreement, but also known as
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty. SALT I froze the number of strategic ballistic missile launchers at existing levels, and provided for the addition of new submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) launchers only after the same number of older intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and SLBM launchers had been dismantled.
The strategic nuclear forces niche of the Soviet Union and the United States were changing in character in 1968. The U.S.'s total number of missiles had been static since 1967 at 1054 ICBMs and 656 SLBMs, but there was an increasing number of missiles with
multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle (MIRV) warheads being deployed. One clause of the treaty required both countries to limit the sites protected by an anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system to one. The Soviet Union had deployed such a system around
Moscow in 1966 and the United States announced an ABM program to protect twelve ICBM sites in 1967. A modified two-tier Moscow ABM system is still used, probably with missile interceptors equipped with conventional instead of nuclear warheads. The U.S. built only one
ABM site to protect a Minuteman (missile) base in North Dakota where the "
Safeguard Program" was deployed. Due to the system's expense and limited effectiveness, the Pentagon disbanded "Safeguard" in 1975.
on the SALT treaty in
Vladivostok, November 23, 1974.Negotiations lasted from November 17, 1969 until May 1972 in a series of meetings beginning in
Helsinki, with the U.S. delegation headed by Gerard C. Smith, director of the
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Subsequent sessions alternated between Vienna and Helsinki. After a long deadlock, the first results of SALT I came in May 1971, when an agreement was reached over ABM systems. Further discussion brought the negotiations to an end on
May 26,
1972 in Moscow when Richard Nixon and
Leonid Brezhnev signed the
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and the
Interim Agreement Between The United States of America and The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on Certain Measures With Respect to the Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms. A number of agreed statements were also made. This helped improve relations between the USA and the Soviet Union.
SALT II
and
Jimmy Carter sign SALT II treaty,
June 18,
1979, in Vienna.
SALT II was a second round of talks from 1972 to 1979 between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, which sought to curtail the manufacture of strategic nuclear weapons. It was a continuation of the progress made during the SALT I talks. SALT II was the first nuclear arms treaty which assumed real reductions in strategic forces to 2250 of all categories of delivery vehicles on both sides. SALT II helped the U.S. to discourage the Soviets not to arm their third generation ICBMs of
SS-17, SS-19 and SS-18 types with much more
MIRVs. The USSR's missile design bureaus had developed in the late 1970s experimental versions of these missiles equipped with anywhere from 10 to 38 thermonuclear warheads each. Additionally, the Soviets secretly agreed to reduce
Tu-22M production to thirty aircraft per year and not to give them an intercontinental range. It was particularly important for the US to limit Soviet efforts in the INF forces rearmament area. The SALT II Treaty banned new missile programs (a new missile defined as one with any key parameter 5% better than in currently deployed missiles), so both sides were forced to limit their new strategic missile types development although US preserved their most essential programs like
Trident and
cruise missiles. In return, the USSR could exclusively retain 308 of its so-called "heavy ICBM" launchers of the
SS-18 type.
An agreement to limit strategic launchers was reached in Vienna on June 18, 1979, and was signed by Leonid Brezhnev and President of the United States Jimmy Carter. Six months after the signing, the Soviet Union deployed troops to Afghanistan, and in September of the same year some senators like "Mr. Boening" (Henry M. Jackson) unexpectedly discovered the so-called "Soviet brigade" on Cuba. As such, the treaty was never
ratification by the United States Senate. Its terms were, nonetheless, honored by both sides until 1986 when the Reagan Administration withdrew from SALT II after accusing the Soviets of violating the pact.
Subsequent discussions took place under the
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) and the
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
See also
External links
- Text of SALT I
- Text of SALT II
- Text of SALT II (cont.)
- Text of the treaty from the U.S. Department of State
- NuclearFiles.org Text of SALT II 1979
- Arms Control Today: U.S.-Soviet/Russian Nuclear Arms Control, June 2002.
The
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaties refers to tworounds of
Bilateralism talks and corresponding international treaties between the
Soviet Union and the United States--the
Cold War superpowers--on the issue of
arms race. There were two rounds of talks and agreements:
SALT I and
SALT II. SALT II later became
START.Negotiations started in Helsinki,
Finland, in 1969 and focused on limiting the two countries' stocks of nuclear weapons. These treaties have led to START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty). START I (a 1991 agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union) and START II (a 1993 agreement between the United States and Russia) placed specific caps on each side's number of nuclear weapons.
SALT I
SALT I is the common name for the
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty Agreement, but also known as
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty. SALT I froze the number of strategic ballistic missile launchers at existing levels, and provided for the addition of new submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) launchers only after the same number of older intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and SLBM launchers had been dismantled.
The strategic nuclear forces niche of the Soviet Union and the United States were changing in character in 1968. The U.S.'s total number of missiles had been static since 1967 at 1054 ICBMs and 656 SLBMs, but there was an increasing number of missiles with multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle (MIRV) warheads being deployed. One clause of the treaty required both countries to limit the sites protected by an
anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system to one. The Soviet Union had deployed such a system around
Moscow in 1966 and the United States announced an ABM program to protect twelve ICBM sites in 1967. A modified two-tier Moscow ABM system is still used, probably with missile interceptors equipped with conventional instead of nuclear warheads. The U.S. built only one ABM site to protect a
Minuteman (missile) base in North Dakota where the "Safeguard Program" was deployed. Due to the system's expense and limited effectiveness, the Pentagon disbanded "Safeguard" in 1975.
on the SALT treaty in
Vladivostok, November 23, 1974.Negotiations lasted from November 17, 1969 until May 1972 in a series of meetings beginning in
Helsinki, with the U.S. delegation headed by Gerard C. Smith, director of the
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Subsequent sessions alternated between
Vienna and Helsinki. After a long deadlock, the first results of SALT I came in May 1971, when an agreement was reached over ABM systems. Further discussion brought the negotiations to an end on
May 26, 1972 in
Moscow when Richard Nixon and
Leonid Brezhnev signed the
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and the
Interim Agreement Between The United States of America and The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on Certain Measures With Respect to the Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms. A number of agreed statements were also made. This helped improve relations between the USA and the Soviet Union.
SALT II
and Jimmy Carter sign SALT II treaty, June 18, 1979, in Vienna.
SALT II was a second round of talks from 1972 to 1979 between the U.S. and the
Soviet Union, which sought to curtail the manufacture of strategic
nuclear weapons. It was a continuation of the progress made during the SALT I talks. SALT II was the first nuclear arms treaty which assumed real reductions in strategic forces to 2250 of all categories of delivery vehicles on both sides. SALT II helped the U.S. to discourage the Soviets not to arm their third generation ICBMs of SS-17, SS-19 and SS-18 types with much more
MIRVs. The USSR's missile design bureaus had developed in the late 1970s experimental versions of these missiles equipped with anywhere from 10 to 38 thermonuclear warheads each. Additionally, the Soviets secretly agreed to reduce
Tu-22M production to thirty aircraft per year and not to give them an intercontinental range. It was particularly important for the US to limit Soviet efforts in the INF forces rearmament area. The SALT II Treaty banned new missile programs (a new missile defined as one with any key parameter 5% better than in currently deployed missiles), so both sides were forced to limit their new strategic missile types development although US preserved their most essential programs like Trident and
cruise missiles. In return, the USSR could exclusively retain 308 of its so-called "
heavy ICBM" launchers of the SS-18 type.
An agreement to limit strategic launchers was reached in
Vienna on
June 18,
1979, and was signed by
Leonid Brezhnev and
President of the United States Jimmy Carter. Six months after the signing, the Soviet Union deployed troops to Afghanistan, and in September of the same year some senators like "Mr. Boening" (Henry M. Jackson) unexpectedly discovered the so-called "Soviet brigade" on Cuba. As such, the treaty was never
ratification by the
United States Senate. Its terms were, nonetheless, honored by both sides until 1986 when the Reagan Administration withdrew from SALT II after accusing the Soviets of violating the pact.
Subsequent discussions took place under the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) and the
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
See also
External links
- Text of SALT I
- Text of SALT II
- Text of SALT II (cont.)
- Text of the treaty from the U.S. Department of State
- NuclearFiles.org Text of SALT II 1979
- Arms Control Today: U.S.-Soviet/Russian Nuclear Arms Control, June 2002.
FSA - Salt
Details the UK government's advice on limiting an adult's salt consumption to no more than 6g a day.
FSA - Salt - Hidden salt
When most people think of salt, they think of shaking it on their food, or adding a pinch to cooking. And it's important to try to get out of the habit of using salt in this way.
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Commercial. Welcome to salt commercial, a new approach to commercial lending ... speed, flexibility and experience ... without the tick box mentality.
SaltMuseum - Salt Museum Home Page
Conserves and presents the history of the Cheshire salt industry. Includes visitor and facility information, publications, and a collection of historic photographs.
Maldon Crystal Salt
Latest news Maldon Salt Wins Bronze Award! We are proud to announce that Maldon Salt won bronze award for Best Regional Food in The Daily Telegraph Taste of Britain Awards.
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Aiming to persuade the UK government that its blanket advice on cutting salt consumption entails risks that have not been properly assessed.
BBC - Food - Glossary - 'S'
BBC Food's glossary of cookery terms: S ... Salt. Crystals of sodium chloride (NaCl) used as a seasoning and preservative.
UKTV Food: Recipes: Salt
We tend to add salt during cooking and at the table as a matter of course, yet it is also a delicious ingredient in its own right when used carefully.
Food Standards Agency - Salt
Most people eat too much salt. This can raise blood pressure, which increases your risk of heart disease and stroke. We can all take steps to eat less salt by shopping wisely and ...
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