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Why did president Jimmy Carter withdraw the salt 11 treaty from consideration by the Senate in 1979

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Although SALT II resulted in an agreement in 1979 in Vienna, the US Senate chose not to ratify the treaty in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which took place later that year. The Supreme Soviet also did not ratify it either. Oh
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