IAFS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Nuclear Proliferation, Organisation For The Prohibition Of Chemical Weapons, International Atomic Energy Agency
9 Aug 2016
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Usa, india, france, pakistan, north korea, russia, uk, israel -> these 9 (*from list on slides) that we know for sure have nuclear weapons. Us nuclear force policy went from 1mil+ soldiers to 300,000 in europe after wwii we pulled our soldiers back rapidly (cid:12254) European allies were now allies in very formal sense, if they were to be attacked we would defend them (threat was now soviet union instead of nazi-germany) massive retaliation (late 1940s) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) Nato (treaty formed in 1949) conventional forces outnumbered by warsaw pact (made in response to nato) they outnumbered our forces 2:1. But soviets develop large nuclear force very quickly (cid:12254) Strategic nuclear triad (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) Cold war ended without exchange of weapons or nuclear weapons with soviet union this remains pentagons policy (cid:12254) same kind of strategy that pakistan and india have requires not only nuclear weapons but various types of nuclear weapons.
