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6. Why is Ballistic missile defence a problem?

  • Russia and China will have no second strike advantage
  • because it raises the cost of creating nuclear weapons for others
  • it means people are overshadowed by the US
  • people won't be able to hit the US

7. what is CWC?

  • 1993- Cheetah Wave convention
  • 1993- Cheese wheel convention
  • 1993- Chemical Weapons convention (prohibits use of chemical weapons)
  • 1993- Chinese women convention

8. what are WMD?

  • Biological weapons
  • Chemical weapons
  • all of the above
  • Nuclear weapons

9. What happened in North Korea?

  • started testing weapons in 2006
  • all of the above
  • tensions still remain high
  • bagan nuclear programme in the 80s and pulled out of Non proliferation treaty in 2003
  • US tried to intervene using cyber attacks
  • US tried to intervene many times

10. What helped keep the peace during the Cold war?

  • Mutual respect
  • US supremacy
  • MAD (mutually assured destruction)
  • USSR supremacy

11. Where have Nuclear bombs been dropped?

  • Moscow and Bejing
  • Pyongyang and Kabul
  • Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  • Kyoto and Tokyo

12. Where are they tested?

  • Mexico
  • Los Alamos
  • Nicuragua
  • Hawaii

13. what's BWC?

  • 1972- Biological Whale convention
  • 1972-Biological weapons convention (the ban of biological weapons)
  • 1972- Blessed whale convention
  • 1972- Baby whale convention

14. Argue the US doesn't need NW

  • there would be a need or the massive military
  • the US would still be the most powerful country in the world
  • all of the above
  • would benefit the US because they can coerce people with giant military

15. What is the main way the US stop the use of NW?

  • coercion
  • deterrence- but this is dwindling as it's an unreliable threat
  • sanction
  • diplomacy

16. what are the challenges to Global zero?

  • tacit nuclear capability problem
  • All of the above
  • they don't want to get rid of them
  • the verification and trust problem
  • unable to uninvent them- science is always there
  • who goes first? Trust issues

17. What is the Iran nuclear deal?

  • Obama set up a deal in which they would sanction Iran in return for nuclear weapons
  • Obama set up a deal in which Iran wold stop pursuing nuclear weapons if the US lifted sanction on them
  • Obama set up a deal in which the us would give them a nuclear reactor
  • Obama set up a deal in which Iran would get money in return for no nuclear weapons

18. How many nuclear weapons does the US have?

  • around 7,500 but deploys 1550 nuclear weapons
  • around 40,000 but deploys around 20,000
  • around 10,000 but deploys 5,000`
  • around 5,000 but deploys 1000

19. what was the impact of 9/11 on NW?

  • all of the above
  • fear of terrorists acquiring NW
  • Rogue states could supply information to terrorists
  • Osama Bin Laden says it would use them to protect Muslims

20. How likely do people feel the use of WMD are?

  • More so because more people have them
  • Less so now there is no big threat to the US
  • More so now than during the cold war due to rogue sates and lack of MAD
  • less so because the US is the most powerful country in the world