Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Nuclear Weapon, Nuclear Proliferation, Forced Migration

• School: Western University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: Political Science 1020E
• Professor: Erin Hannah

Document Summary

Security of civil war- because it leads to: Other issue areas become securiized: state formaion, environmental degradaion, communicable disease, poverty. 1957: internaional atomic energy agency (develop understanding, inspecions capacity to ensure whether treaty terms are being held to) 1964-68: interstate negoiaions- if they can"t be eliminated, stop the spread of them. 1968: non-proliferaion treaty, in force 1970: 190 signatories, major holdouts: india, pakistan, israel. Nnws (non-nuclear weapon states) agree: not to acquire nuclear weapons, to submit to iaea inspecions. Nws (nuclear weapon states) agree: not to transfer weapons to the nnws, to begin nuclear disarmament, to help nnws develop nuclear power for civilian use. Belarus (these are countries in the ussr, with the collapse of ussr these countries gave it up) 30+ countries pursued and then abandoned nuclear weapons. New nws don"t seem to spur regional nuclear arms races. Nws have cut back from a high of 80 000 to less than 20 000 weapons.