Nuclear proliferation Flashcards
Why do traditionalist say the CW started?
Lay blame with USSR.
Slow to leave E EUR and N Iran
turned down marshall plan
Why do revisionists say the CW started?
- US aggression which dated back to Russian civil war.
Eastern bloc was a defensive measure
Post-revisionist
Realist view of filling a vacuum by both sides.
When did Russia develop the atomic bomb?
1949
When was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
1962
What ended the period of Detente in the CW?
Invasion of afghanistan in 1979
What did both the superpowers need to operate MAD?
A second strike capability
When were the SALT talks?
1972 and 1979
How does Waltz refer to Israel’s sucessful pursuit of nuclear weapons?
As a “cheaper and safer alternative to running an economically ruinous conventional arms race”
When did India detonate its first nuclear device?
1974
What did Bull describe as the first failure of NPT?
India testing its first device
What does the IAEA stand for and when was it formed?
The International Atomic Energy Agency
1957
When did N Korea withdraw from the NPT as permitted under article X?
1993
Who found that in the early 2000s there had been a decline in the number of staes interested in acquiring nukes?
Muller and Schmidt
When did the NPT enter force?
1970
