INR 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Strategic Defense Initiative, Treaty On The Non-Proliferation Of Nuclear Weapons, Mushroom Cloud
Document Summary
Nuclear nonproliferation treaty (npt) an international agreement that seeks to prevent horizontal proliferation by prohibiting further nuclear weapons sales, acquisitions, or production. A plan implemented by the ronald regan administration to put a laser in space that could knock a nuclear weapon out of the sky. Thus, sdi sought to shift u. s. nuclear strategy away from the mad theory, which regan found morally wrong. He realized that if one state failed, everyone would lose because both sides would ultimately be destroyed. Thus, the anti-ballistic missile treaty (abm) was signed, saying that the states agreed that defense is a bad thing, and each would not develop ballistic missile defense (bmd). Disarment (arms control) agreement to constrain arms races by setting limits on the number and types of weapons states are permitted to produce. Arms control is about taking away any incentives for an opponent to attack.
