Arms Control Basics Flashcards
What is the security dilemma?
(Why does it happen?)
Whatever you do for your security it may still go wrong
Arming against a friendly neighbor thought a predator causes armament in
What is Arms Control?
The goal?
Constriants on weapons and armed forces that serve the stability of the military situation between the parties to an arms control agreement
What is Non-Proliferation?
Contratictions and disagreements as well
Efforts to prevent the furthur spread of certain weapons
Nuclear Weapons states ask non-nuclear states to abstain while keeping their weapons. Non-Nuclear have a right to use Nuclear power but plutonium and uranium enrichment can lead to nuclear weapons.
What is disarmament?
The reduction of certain weapons with the final goal of elimination
Requires enemies to get over fears and initiate talks in the first place
Verification Activities
All measures to ensure that members to an agreement are complying with their undertakings
What is the reasoning central to arms control?
Having a conflict and the weapons creates the conduction of conflict. By limiting destabilizing weapons we can stop posturing and reduce the conduction of conflict
What is the reasoning central to Non-Proliferation?
States having weapons incites the conduction of conflict. The less states holding certain weapons the more stability
What is the reasoning central to Disarmament?
Weapons are the cause of war so moving the number of weapons to zero will prevent war totally
What is Humanitarian Arms Control?
An approach to constrain weapons and their use that do particular harm to the civilian population
What is Human Security?
A security concept that makes people, not states, the central subject of security policy
closly related to humanitarian arms control
How does the shift to humanitarian arms control affect the politics of multilateral arms control?
-Great powers lose the incentive to set and change agendas
-Smaller powers are empowered to create new coalitions and circumvent the veto of single states
-civil society and nongovernmental organizations are more active in negotiations
-the UN General assembly’s role is enhanced. It sanctions new agendas, installed new negotiation formats, adopts new treaties and opens them for signature
What are the 3 types of stability that arms control aims for?
Crisis Stability, Strategic Stability, and Arms Race Stability
Why do you need to know weapons?
You can never contain or eliminate a risk without knowing what it is
What are effectors?
In Weapons Systems
What does the killing
Example: Warheads
What are Delivery Vehicles?
In Weapons Systems
What takes the effector to the target
Example: Missles or Torpedoes
What are Launchers?
In Weapons Systems
What the delivery vehicle is started on
Example: Missile Silos and Tubes
What are Carriers/Platforms?
In Weapons Systems
What brings the Launcher into range
Example: Tanks, Aircrafts, and Ships
How do modern weapons kill?
-Kinetic Impact (bullets)
-Explosive Blast (grenades)
-Fire
-Chemical Reactions
-Biological Effects
-Radiation
Killing by information appears to be in range (e.g. destroying the security system of a nuclear reactor)
What can be controlled when it comes to weapons?
Different strategies exist controlling delivery vehicles, effectors, range of weapons, research and development, export and import, deployment and use
What are the catagories of Weapons of Mass Destruction?
-Chemical Weapons (killing by chemical reactions)
-Biological Weapons( (killing by viruses, bacteria, ricketsiae, and by toxins made by living beings)
-Radiogical Weapons (Killing by Radiation)
-Nuclear Weapons (killing by blast, heat and radiation effects of nuclear fission and fusion)
What challenges come with trying to control weapons and weapons components?
Deciding on and defining the objective, the control unit, the balance, and the level of verification
What are the three primary goals of arms control?
Stability, Reduced Costs, Damage Limitation in War
What is a Control Unit?
In Arms Control
The part or characteristic of the weapons system that is subject to quantitative and/or qualitative constraints
What are Export Controls?
What is there scope most commonly?
Measures by states, international organisations, and private economic actors to prevent the illegal transfer of weapons, material, equipment, and technology that could be used to produce prohibited weapons
Multilateral
