Nuclear Proliferation 2

Question 1

Give two examples where military action has been delayed for NWPs?

Answer 1

1. Soviet intervention in Korea

2. Sino-Soviet border crisis - 1969. Provoked by CHI once nuclear armed.

Question 2

How many conflicts were there between IND and PAK prior to IND nukes?

Answer 2

6 Crises
3 wars
from 49-74

Question 3

When did Isreal launch an attack against the Iraqi Osiraq nuclear power plant?

Answer 3

1981

Question 4

How does Buzan describe the workings of MAD?

Answer 4

each state effectively offers its own physical base as a hostage.

Question 5

When did the Non-Proliferation Treaty come into force?

Answer 5

1970

Question 6

How many states have adhered to the treaty?

Answer 6

191 states

Question 7

How many nuclear warheads are there worldwide?

Answer 7

over 14,000

Question 8

What did critics of the NPT say?

Answer 8

Not enough is being done to encourage nuclear disarnament,

Question 9

What was the name of the proposal that Eisenhower delivered in the UN Gen Ass in 1953?

Answer 9

“Atoms for Peace”

Question 10

What are the three pillars of the NPT? (not directly espressed in the treaty)

Answer 10

1. Non-proliferation
2. Disarnament
3. The right to peacefully use nuclear technology

Question 11

What did Zigare and Kilgour discover on the bargaining effects of holding nuclear weapons?

Answer 11

That Nuclear weapons have the potnetioal to increase the costs of conflict of their opponents.
They will enhace their sucess in coersive diplomacy.

Question 12

What have Beardsley and Asla discovers that nuclear weapons can do in crisis?

Answer 12

Increast the ability for nuclear states to prevail.

Question 13

What does Kenneth Waltz say is the primary goal of states?

Answer 13

Survival is the primary goal of states

Question 14

What is the effect of nuclear weapons on the bargaining table?

Answer 14

Detterence not compellence.