Nuclear non-proliferation

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  • Created on: 19-05-18 16:54
How many WMDs are there?
Cold war= 70,000 Now= 15,000
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How likely do people feel the use of WMD are?
More so now than during the cold war due to rogue sates and lack of MAD
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Where have Nuclear bombs been dropped?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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How many nuclear weapons does the US have?
around 7,500 but deploys 1550 nuclear weapons
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Where are they tested?
Los Alamos
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What helped keep the peace during the Cold war?
MAD (mutually assured destruction)
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What is the Nuclear non-proliferation treaty
1968- nuclear states should work towards nuclear disarmament
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what's BWC?
1972-Biological weapons convention (the ban of biological weapons)
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what is CWC?
1993- Chemical Weapons convention (prohibits use of chemical weapons)
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What threats of WMDs are there at the end of the Cold war?
Scared WMD could get into hands of irrational states more likely to use them and not care about consequences
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what did the NSC resolution 1540 do?
Makes Nuclear states take nuclear material seriously and it must be protected
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What is the Iran nuclear deal?
Obama set up a deal in which Iran wold stop pursuing nuclear weapons if the US lifted sanction on them
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What is the main way the US stop the use of NW?
deterrence- but this is dwindling as it's an unreliable threat
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Why is Ballistic missile defence a problem?
Russia and China will have no second strike advantage
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