Nuclear Weapons & Arms Control
This treaty was signed in 1968 to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.
What is the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT)?
Terrorist group led by Osama bin Laden.
What is Al Qaeda?
Russia invaded this Georgian nation to prevent control of certain regions.
What is Georgia?
Electronic attacks on computer systems are known as these.
What are cyberattacks?
Global climate change increased the risk of these natural disasters, including storms and droughts.
What are extreme weather events?
These three countries never signed the NPT and developed nuclear weapons.
What are India, Israel, and Pakistan?
The date on which Al Qaeda carried out attacks using hijacked airplanes.
What is September 11, 2001?
The term used for attacks on computers and servers, often linked to Russia.
What is cyber warfare?
The protection of computers, networks, and data is called this.
What is cybersecurity?
Rising temperatures cause glaciers to melt and this to rise worldwide.
What is sea level?
This country withdrew from the NPT and later tested nuclear weapons.
What is North Korea?
About this many people were killed in the 9/11 attacks.
What is 3,000?
Russia annexed this Ukrainian region.
What is Crimea?
The U.S. has accused this group of countries of carrying out cyberattacks: Russia, Iran, China, and ______.
What is North Korea?
These Pacific nations face the risk of becoming uninhabitable due to climate change.
What are island countries?
This treaty banned medium-range nuclear missiles.
What is the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty?
The extremist group that refused to surrender terrorists to the U.S. after 9/11.
What is the Taliban?
China claims this self-governing island and has threatened to use force to take it.
What is Taiwan?
These systems could be disrupted by cyberattacks, including electrical and water supplies.
What is essential infrastructure?
People forced to leave their homes because of climate-related conditions are called these.
What are climate refugees?
The arms control treaty ratified by the U.S. and Russia in 2011 was called this.
What is New START?
This terrorist organization gained support from some Sunni Arabs in Iraq.
What is ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria)?
This sea is a source of tension because of valuable oil, gas, and military expansion.
What is the South China Sea?
During the 2000s, the world faced growing threats from cyberattacks, climate change, and this form of violence.
What is political violence?
Migration increased rapidly as millions moved from developing nations to this type of world.
What is the developed world?