POLS 1160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, Mutual Assured Destruction

• School: Northeastern University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 1160
• Professor: Maness

Document Summary

Proliferation optimism and pessimism: non-proliferation regime: product of 1st nuclear age (1950-1990, the ntp as a means of disarmament or a means of limiting new nuclear weapons state. Difference b/w nuclear weapons production and nuclear power production: for nuclear weapons a chain reaction is required. For power generation a moderation of the reaction is required: separate processes are needed for each. Nuclear weapons effects: wmd: weapons of mass destruction, cbrn: chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear, three forms of energy with a nuclear explosion. Deterrence: the act of keeping someone from doing something you would not otherwise want them to do: to carry out make known what you don"t want done and back it up with a threat. War becomes an exercise in military strategy, coercion and intimidation. War is longer about policy by other means: only policy is survival and nothing else matters.