AS.190.209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Arms Control, Enriched Uranium, Nuclear Proliferation
4 Sep 2016
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Examine why one studies the spread of nuclear weapons. Examine how a country can get nuclear weapons and how to build a nuclear bomb. Examine incentives for acquiring nuclear weapons and identify which countries have them. Evaluate the question of whether the spread of nuclear weapons is necessarily bad and examine ways of stopping the spread. Examine the iran deal and look at other weapons of mass destruction. First, the greatest physical threat to the us and world peace is the use of nuclear weapons or other. In some ways, the threat is worse now after the. Cold war than during the cold war due to irrational rogue countries and terrorist groups. Second, if nuclear weapons are used, even if america is not a target, The environment would also be affected (climactic changes that could threaten all life on earth nuclear winter). The nuclear taboo would be eroded if nuclear weapons were used.
