POLS 2880 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Nuclear Warfare, Mutual Assured Destruction, Peaceful Nuclear Explosion
8 Sep 2017
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1949 ussr (espionage: nuclear monopoly is over, now two states have them, states worried there could be a lot more than just two. 1952 uk: three years after russia, were partners in the program, once they made the decision to pursue weapons it was only a matter of time until they had some, developed them independently with cooperation of us. 1956 france (independent: were not involved in program during the war, saw nuclear weapons as crucial to maintain great power status, independent, no help, maybe had help from israel. 1960 china (usssr: relatively poor, russia helped, both communists, also five permanent members of the un security council, five states recognized as nuclear weapon states in npt treaty. 1974 peaceful nuclear explosion: india conducts what they call a peaceful nuclear explosion, were trying to signal that they could do this, but did not plan to have active weapons, signal to pakistan, had already fought some wars.
