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Nuclear Proliferation - Coggle Diagram
Nuclear Proliferation
8 countries have them
United States
Russia
Great Britain
France
China
India
Pakistan
North Korea
Israel also has them
they either acknowledges or denies that it has the weapons
Contemporary proliferation Problem
Cold War fear of nuclear war
purpose is to limit the size and destructiveness of the arsenals of possessing states.
Also to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons
two basic forms of proliferation
Vertical
the impact of additional weapons an already nuclear armed states might gain
Concerns
add to the potential deadliness
can create arm races
Potentially destabilizing arms spiral
Horizontal
the spread of nuclear weapons to states that don't already have them
when the term "proliferation is used out mostly taking about horizontal proliferation (now)
potential nuclear possessors
Israel
Has possessed since 1968
does not admitted or denied the fact
North Korea
The worlds newest weapons states
Iran
has not yet developed or deployed
"on short notice"
Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)
It prohibited states that did not already have nuclear weapons from getting them.
Also does not let states that already has them to aid the spread of them
made states that already had them promise to reduce and eliminate their own arsenals
Mixed success