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What Article 3 of the 1971 nuclear risk-reduction treaty says — and why Coulthart called it SALT
A 1971 U.S.–Soviet risk-reduction agreement requires both sides to notify each other of "unidentified objects" detected by missile warning systems. The clause is not in SALT I or SALT II. Coulthart cited it as a SALT provision in a NewsNation segment on July 26, 2026. Grusch cited it in 2023, Luna cited it in the same year, and Elizondo cited it in his 2024 book. Here is the original text, the chronology that explains the SALT mislabel, and what the language does and does not establish.
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