POLISCI 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Nuclear Weapon, International Atomic Energy Agency

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLISCI 121
• Professor: Vincent Ferraro

Document Summary

Atomic bombs were first regarded as a bigger bomb instead of different. Over time, from atomic bomb to nuclear bomb, the us realized its military. Soviet union supported communism in china and north korea. If you want to survive as a nation, you must have military power. 1945 ultimate military power explosion of the atomic bomb. bombs. power. Us realized that there were very few stakes that the us could pursue with nuclear weapons worth killing millions of people. Reason why you would have nuclear weapons is to only deter the nuclear attack of another armed state. Otherwise, the nuclear weapon has no other purpose. 1964 chinese develop the atomic bomb with the help of the soviets. Used to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. States who sign it, may have nuclear weapons. Nuclear states (united states, russia, united kingdom, france, South africans denied possession of nuclear bomb. Suspicion is that south africans and israelis worked together to allow the.