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Ethics

Ethics. The challenges of state and non-state proliferation. Source: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. http://www.ctbto.org/specials/1945-1998-by-isao-hashimoto / (12 minutes onwards). State Proliferation. Q: Which states are ‘trusted’ to have nuclear weapons?

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Ethics

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  1. Ethics The challenges of state and non-state proliferation

  2. Source: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

  3. http://www.ctbto.org/specials/1945-1998-by-isao-hashimoto/ • (12 minutes onwards)

  4. State Proliferation • Q: Which states are ‘trusted’ to have nuclear weapons? • Q: What happens to other states who acquire nuclear weapons? • Q: Why have them if no one will ever use them? • Q: What situations would a state use nuclear weapons?

  5. Non-State Proliferation • Never happened. • The biggest threat (a while ago) was from Nukes in the former USSR that were unsecured after the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe. • Now… terrorism? North Korea / Iran / Pakistan supplying non-State actors.

  6. State and Non-State Proliferation

  7. Short Answers… • Outline two perspectives on the ethical issue of nuclear armament. (6-7 marks)

  8. Evaluation of statements The threat posed to global security from the proliferation of conventional weapons is far more real than that posed by WMDs falling into the hands of would-be terrorists.

  9. Evaluation of statements Non-state proliferation has presented new, harder problems to the global community in the fields of arms control and disarmament.

  10. Evaluation of statements International politics, like all politics, is a struggle for power. “Whatever the ultimate aims of international politics, power is always the immediate aim”. (Hans Morgenthau) As a result arms control and disarmament will never succeed because they seek to curtail state power.

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