SALT Agreements Signing Ceremony

View of attendees at a signing ceremony for the instruments of ratification of the SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) agreements between the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) and the US in the White House's East Room, Washington DC, October 3, 1972. Pictured are, seated from left, Soviet Ambassador Anatoly F Dobrynin (1919 - 2010), Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko (1909 - 1989), US President Richard Nixon (1913 - 1989), US Secretary of State William P Rogers (1913 - 2001), and US negotiator Gerard C Smith (1914 - 1994). The two standing aides are unidentified. The agreements intend to restrain the growth of the nuclear arsenals of both nations. (Photo by Ron Sachs/CNP/Getty Images)