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Chapter 33

Chapter 33. Arms Control in the Nuclear Age. 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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Chapter 33

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  1. Chapter 33 Arms Control in the Nuclear Age

  2. 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 Ch. 33 Vocabulary Terms

  3. 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?

  4. Read pages 450-454 • Arms control in the Nuclear agethrough 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?

  5. 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.

  6. 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?

  7. Discussion questions(continued) • Discuss the probability of each of the following’s 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?

  8. 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 Controlling Nuclear and Other Weapons

  9. 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?

  10. Read pages 454-457 • Efforts to control Nuclear weaponsthrough 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?

  11. Read pages 457- 460 • Chemical Weaponsthrough toThe international arms Trade 12. Why are chemical weapons considered the “poor nation’s 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)

  12. 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?

  13. 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.

  14. 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?

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