Vocab
What is Smallpox?
Disease brought by the British which killed 130,000 North Americans
What is a Superpower rivalry during the Cold War?
Geopolitical considerations influenced the US Soviet Union to transfer weapons to their allies.
What are chemical weapons?
Describe dissuasion
involves efforts to influence countries to not acquire weapons
Limited Test Ban Treaty
Prohibits nuclear explosions in the atmosphere, in outer space and underwater.
What is Hobbesian Worldview?
places constant struggle for power and dominance at the center international relations.
What did Military burden sharing consist of?
It was reluctant to engage in direct military confrontation, provided weapons, technical assistance and the arms production technologies to their allies so they could fend for themselves.
What do chemical weapons cause?
Damage to lung tissue, restrict respiration and severe burns to the skin and lungs.
What's disarmament?
Focuses on preventing proliferation through treaties such as the NPT.
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Prohibits countries from transferring nuclear weapons or helping other countries acquire them.
What is Dual Usage?
What is regional balance of power?
Arms sales are often defended on the grounds which transfers regional stability and diminished the likelihood of war.
Can they be used for terrorism?
Yes
Is diplomacy aiming to persuading countries to abandon weapons programs?
Yes
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
Limits strategic nuclear missile launchers and missile-firing submarines
What is Israel's spy agency?
A Mossad
What did economics of scale do?
Many countries exported weapons to obtain resources to finance development and production.
Who introduced it?
Germans brought it during World War 1 on a massive scale.
What does Denial do?
Restricts exports of technologies and materials
Limits US and Soviet Union underground nuclear weapons tests
What allowed the international atomic energy agency to monitor nuclear weapon activities?
NPT
Global criminal activities
Terrorism, drug trafficking, smuggling, money laundering estimate demand for weapons.
What disrupts chemical weapons?
Wind speeds and wind direction disperses chemicals on battlefields making it impossible to redirect causing many more casualties.
No, chemical suits, masks and vaccines
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
Prohibits all nuclear weapons test explosions (not ratified by the US Senate)