Verified Test Bank Chapter.6 Weapons Proliferation

Chapter 6

Weapons Proliferation

Multiple-Choice

1. The _____________ worldview places the constant struggle for power and dominance at the center of international relations.
   1. Khanian
   2. Lockian
   3. Hobbesian
   4. Burkian

Topic/Concept: The Proliferation of Weapons

6.1: Relate the problem of weapons proliferation to the Hobbesian worldview

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of why small arms and light weapons are attractive?
   1. Easy availability
   2. Single usage
   3. Portability
   4. Low cost

Topic/Concept: The Proliferation of Weapons

6.1: Relate the problem of weapons proliferation to the Hobbesian worldview

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. _____________, the world’s first artificial satellite, was launched by the Soviet Union.
   1. Orbit
   2. Challenger
   3. Sputnik
   4. Avenger

Topic/Concept: The Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

6.2: Analyze how the proliferation of nuclear weapons by different countries has made the world an unsafe place

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. The idea of _____________ destruction originated from the reality that a nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union would be suicidal.
   1. ultimate
   2. mutual assured
   3. balanced
   4. mutual balanced

Topic/Concept: The Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

6.2: Analyze how the proliferation of nuclear weapons by different countries has made the world an unsafe place

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. The 1996 _______________ limits the right of countries to conduct nuclear weapons tests.
   1. Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
   2. Proliferation Restraint Treaty
   3. Nuclear Lockdown Treaty
   4. New START Treaty

Topic/Concept: The Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

6.2: Analyze how the proliferation of nuclear weapons by different countries has made the world an unsafe place

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. North Korea is known as the _____________ because of its imposed isolation from the global community.
   1. Island State
   2. isolated regions
   3. Hermit Kingdom
   4. Hermit State

Topic/Concept: The Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

6.2: Analyze how the proliferation of nuclear weapons by different countries has made the world an unsafe place

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. _____________ weapons are extremely toxic and can be dispersed in many different ways including gas, vapor, and liquid.
   1. Chemical
   2. Nuclear
   3. Biological
   4. Cluster bomb

Topic/Concept: Chemical and Biological Weapons

6.4: Distinguish between chemical and biological weapons

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. The United States used _____________ to defoliate forests in Vietnam in its war against the Vietcong forces.
   1. nuclear weapons
   2. anthrax
   3. Agent Orange
   4. mustard gas

Topic/Concept: Chemical and Biological Weapons

6.4: Distinguish between chemical and biological weapons

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. _____________ weapons are made of living microorganisms and toxins that are capable of causing fatal diseases.
   1. Chemical
   2. Biological
   3. Nuclear
   4. Conventional

Topic/Concept: Chemical and Biological Weapons

6.4: Distinguish between chemical and biological weapons

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
   1. was a major reason AK-47s ended up in the hands of terrorists in Afghanistan.
   2. was an exception to nuclear weapon restraint shown by superpowers during the Cold War.
   3. directly resulted in the New START treaty between Russia and the United States.
   4. was a major reason for the development of Agent Orange.

Topic/Concept: The Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

6.2: Analyze how the proliferation of nuclear weapons by different countries has made the world an unsafe place

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. What country adopted a “policy of pacifism,” prohibiting owning, producing, or allowing nuclear weapons on its territory?
   1. Brazil
   2. Japan
   3. Pakistan
   4. India

Topic/Concept: The Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

6.2: Analyze how the proliferation of nuclear weapons by different countries has made the world an unsafe place

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. The prevention of hair-trigger alert postures and the securement of weapons is concentrated in
   1. defusing.
   2. disarmament.
   3. defenses.
   4. deterrence.

Topic/Concept: Nonproliferation Regimes

6.6: Appraise global efforts to control chemical and biological weapons

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Which of the following is NOT one of the advised actions for nuclear weapons possessors in order to promote nuclear nonproliferation in other countries?
   1. Pledge to not use their weapons to threaten countries without nuclear weapons
   2. Maintain their nuclear weapons
   3. Ensure nonnuclear states that their neighbors would be prevented from becoming nuclear powers
   4. Help countries that have renounced nuclear weapons and accepted international monitoring to acquire nuclear technology for civilian purposes

Topic/Concept: Nonproliferation Regimes

6.6: Appraise global efforts to control chemical and biological weapons

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. _____________ are attachments to treaties that allow states to be excluded from the legal effects of certain provisions of the 1925 Geneva Protocol.
   1. Reservations
   2. Provisions
   3. Exceptions
   4. Conditions

Topic/Concept: Nonproliferation Regimes

6.6: Appraise global efforts to control chemical and biological weapons

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

True False

1. One reason small arms and light weapons are attractive is that they are expensive and not readily available, making them rare finds.

Explanation: Small arms and light weapons are inexpensive, and are readily available.

Topic/Concept: The Proliferation of Weapons

6.1: Relate the problem of weapons proliferation to the Hobbesian worldview

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. One reason for the proliferation of weapons is that the transfer of arms contributes to regional stability and diminishes the likelihood of war (Regional Balance of Power).

Topic/Concept: The Proliferation of Weapons

6.1: Relate the problem of weapons proliferation to the Hobbesian worldview

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Much of the global weapons trade is not motivated by financial considerations.

Explanation: Global weapons trade is motivated by financial consideration.

Topic/Concept: The Proliferation of Weapons

6.1: Relate the problem of weapons proliferation to the Hobbesian worldview

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. A nonproliferation regime is an interlocking network of treaties, agreements, and organizations designed to prevent the spread or use of weapons of mass destruction.

Topic/Concept: Nonproliferation Regimes

6.6: Appraise global efforts to control chemical and biological weapons

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. The Chemical Weapons Convention prohibits the development and acquisition of chemical weapons, but still allows their use.

Explanation: Use is also prohibited.

Topic/Concept: Nonproliferation Regimes

6.6: Appraise global efforts to control chemical and biological weapons

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. No countries have yet abandoned their nuclear weapons programs.

Explanation: Nearly 20 countries have abandoned them.

Topic/Concept: Case Study

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. The Non-Proliferation Treaty does not allow the International Atomic Energy Agency of the United Nations to monitor nuclear weapons activities.

Explanation: It does allow them to monitor.

Topic/Concept: The Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

6.2: Analyze how the proliferation of nuclear weapons by different countries has made the world an unsafe place

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Governments transferring weapons to other governments is one way in which small arms and light weapons are transferred.

Topic/Concept: The Proliferation of Weapons

6.1: Relate the problem of weapons proliferation to the Hobbesian worldview

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

Fill in the Blank

1. The ____________ limits the right of countries to conduct nuclear weapons tests.

Topic/Concept: The Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

6.2: Analyze how the proliferation of nuclear weapons by different countries has made the world an unsafe place

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. The ___________ is a nuclear weapon capable of hitting reinforced concrete bunkers as deep as 40 feet underground.

Topic/Concept: America’s Nuclear Response to Nuclear Proliferation

6.3: Report the advocacy of the preemptive use of nuclear warheads against potential or actual adversaries

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. Prohibiting the use of biological and chemical weapons is the ___________.

Topic/Concept: Nonproliferation Regimes

6.6: Appraise global efforts to control chemical and biological weapons

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. The agreement prohibiting the development, manufacture, and stockpiling of biological weapons is called the _____________.

Topic/Concept: Nonproliferation Regimes

6.6: Appraise global efforts to control chemical and biological weapons

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. ______________ is the reality that a nuclear exchange between two superpowers would be suicidal.

Topic/Concept: The Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

6.2: Analyze how the proliferation of nuclear weapons by different countries has made the world an unsafe place

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. During the Cold War, the concept of ________________________ refers to the idea that neither the United States nor the Soviet Union could launch nuclear weapons against the other without suffering catastrophic consequences itself.

Topic/Concept: The Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

6.2: Analyze how the proliferation of nuclear weapons by different countries has made the world an unsafe place

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. _____________ was the name of the world’s first artificial satellite.

Topic/Concept: The Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

6.2: Analyze how the proliferation of nuclear weapons by different countries has made the world an unsafe place

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. Weapons that can be dispersed as a gas, vapor, or liquid, and are extremely toxic, are considered ___________ weapons.

Topic/Concept: Chemical and Biological Weapons

6.4: Distinguish between chemical and biological weapons

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. Missiles, tanks, and heavy artillery are all types of _____________ weapons.

Topic/Concept: The Proliferation of Weapons

6.1: Relate the problem of weapons proliferation to the Hobbesian worldview

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. _______________, which killed around 130,000 North Americans, was deliberately spread by British forces during the Revolutionary War.

Topic/Concept: Introduction

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

Matching

Answers to Matching:

1) C) 1925 Geneva Protocol

2) A) biological weapons

3) E) mutually assured destruction (MAD)

4) B) Antiballistic Missile Treaty

5) D) Nuclear Posture Review

Essay Questions

1. In light of America’s declining power and the need to cooperate with other nations, how should it deal with Iran and North Korea?

Topic/Concept: The Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

6.2: Analyze how the proliferation of nuclear weapons by different countries has made the world an unsafe place

Skill Level: Evaluation

Difficulty Level: Difficult

1. Do you think the world would be a safer place without nuclear weapons? Why or why not?

Topic/Concept: The Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

6.2: Analyze how the proliferation of nuclear weapons by different countries has made the world an unsafe place

Skill Level: Analysis

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. Discuss the dangers of small arms proliferation. Give examples.

Topic/Concept: The Proliferation of Weapons

6.1: Relate the problem of weapons proliferation to the Hobbesian worldview

Skill Level: Analysis

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. Discuss the logic behind developing national missile defense systems. Do you think such efforts will help increase or decrease the level of nuclear proliferation? Why or why not?

Topic/Concept: Nonproliferation Regimes

6.6: Appraise global efforts to control chemical and biological weapons

Skill Level: Analysis

Difficulty Level: Difficult

1. Discuss global efforts to control chemical and biological weapons.

Topic/Concept: Nonproliferation Regimes

6.6: Appraise global efforts to control chemical and biological weapons

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate