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Nuclear Proliferation and Disarmament :!!: - Coggle Diagram
Nuclear Proliferation and Disarmament
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beginning of the bomb :explode:
Robert Oppenheimer, July 16,1945
Who has them :question:
United States
Soviet Union
exploded atomic bomb in 1949
Great Britain
France
China
India
Pakistan
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea)
Israel is also a possessor but neither acknowledges nor denies that it has the weapons.
South Africa is the only state to deploy the weapons and subsequently dis-mantle their arsenal as white rule was ending in the country
Iran: potential proliferator
Different types of Proliferation :pencil2:
vertical proliferation
the impact of additional weapons an already nuclear-armed state may gain
horizontal proliferation
the spread of nuclear weapons to states that currently do not possess them
currently is what is referenced when proliferation is said
North Korea
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threat of destroying the U.S
1950s Kim il-Sung
Korean War 1953
formal talks ended with the ascension of President Trump, into a personal dialogue with leader Kim Jong-un that eventuated in the North Korean ascension to nuclear status in 2018
Iran
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Iranian and DPRK cases illustrate both strategies
research in atomic matters has always been much more public, and more controversial given their conflict with the United States and Israel
significant foreign policy differences with the United States
denies any interest or desire to build, and especially to use, nuclear weapons
Iran is a member of the NPT, deemed to be an untrustworthy, rogue regime whose word cannot be taken at face value
Israel
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fear of Islamic neighbors
clandestinely obtained the weapons through efforts that began shortly after its independence and managed to hide their development until they fabricated their first atomic bomb in 1968.
Samson Option
1954
Holocaust "Never Again"
only nuclear power in middle east