Political Science 2231E Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Treaty On The Non-Proliferation Of Nuclear Weapons, List Of Countries By Military Expenditures, Strategic Defense Initiative
18 Jan 2018
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War preparation: military spending, 1,776 billion in 2014, or 60% increase since 2000. 90% of military exports are coming from those great powers. Star wars, intended to build a structure in space to protect itself from ballistic weapons: the textbook, says " military force tends to be a last resort. Evidence also shows that the utility of military force relative to nonmilitary means is slowly declining" So much weapons of mass destruction that it will guarantee a retaliatory strike suffer damages, vice versa: this could actually prevent conflict to avoid such scenario, nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. Nuclear: us, russia, 44000 amount nuclear weapons, china has 200, north korea, 6, countries who gave up nuclear weapons: brazil, argentina, south africa, germany, sweden, Implication is difficult, making it a weaker treaty and the us said they don"t want to go ahead with it.
