Arms Control in the Nuclear Age

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Chapter 33

• Arms Control in the Nuclear Age

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Ch. 33 Vocabulary Terms

• ABM
• Biological Weapons
• Chemical Weapons
• Conventional Arms
• Deterrence
• Hydrogen bomb
• ICBM
• MIRV
• Verify
• INF

• Nuclear club
• Nuclear proliferation
• Nuclear winter
• SDI
• Defoiliant
• Nuclear Disarmament
• Retaliation
• SALT
• START

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Introduction

• Look at the picture on pg. 453
• What effects do you think more modern nuclear
  weapons might have if they exploded over
  populated areas?

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Read pages 450-454

• Arms control in the Nuclear age through to
  Efforts to control Nuclear weapons.
• Do you think you or your family would likely
  survive a nuclear war?
• If you did survive speculate as to what life
  would be like after a nuclear war?

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Discussion questions

• In your opinion are there any circumstances that
  could ever justify starting a nuclear war?
• What does the concept of Arms Race mean?
• Explain the concept of deterrence.

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Discussion questions (continued)

• 4. Do you think that a nuclear war between Russia
  and the U.S. would ever likely break out?
• 5. Do you think that a nuclear war between the
  U.S. and some country other than Russia would
  likely ever break out?

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Discussion questions (continued)

• Discuss the probability of each of the
  followings starting a nuclear war
• The U.S.
• Russia
• Human error
• Computer error
• Another country
• Terrorist group
• 6. Arrange this list in order of probability as
  you see it.
• 7. Do you think that the development of nuclear
  weapons is a benefit to humankind?

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Controlling Nuclear and Other Weapons

• Countries with Nuclear Weapons
• United States
• France
• Israel
• China
• Russia
• India
• Pakistan
• Great Britain

• Countries developing Nuclear Weapons
• Iraq
• Taiwan
• South Korea
• North Korea
• Algeria
• Iran
• Syria
• Libya
• Brazil
• Argentina

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Discussion questions (continued)

• 9. In your opinion is there an increased danger
  of nuclear wars with an increase in the number of
  countries possessing nuclear weapons?
• 10. In your opinion do you think that the number
  of countries possessing nuclear weapons can be
  kept constant or can be reduced?
• 11. In your opinion do the countries that posses
  nuclear weapons have the right / authority to
  prevent other countries for trying to get and
  have nuclear weapons?

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Read pages 454-457

• Efforts to control Nuclear weapons through to
  Chemical weapons
• What are some of the breakthroughs in nuclear
  disarmament negotiations
• (Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty, Salt I and II, INF
  Treaty, and START)
• What methods could one use to verify the number
  of nuclear weapon a country possesses?

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Read pages 457- 460

• Chemical Weapons through to The international
  arms Trade
• 12. Why are chemical weapons considered the poor
  nations atomic bomb?
• (They are cheaper and easier to use than nuclear
  weapons, but they are still frightful)
• (it is harder to verify the production and
  stockpiling of chemical weapons than that of
  nuclear weapons)

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Discussion questions (continued)

• What are Biological Weapons?
• 13. In your opinion is it possible and desirable
  to control the production and stockpiling of
  these weapons?

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Theoretical circumstances

• For each of the following circumstances decide
  whether the U.S. would be justified in using a
  strike first nuclear attack
• China sends troops into Japan.
• Iran develops a nuclear bomb and use it against
  Israel.
• North Korea invades South Korea.

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Read page 460

• After reading The international arms Trade look
  at the cartoon on pg 458.
• Answer the question in the caption.
• In your opinion what should and can Americans do
  about the international arms trade?