Arms Race and Disarmament

Q. Why does India advocate disarmament as the need of the world? Discuss.​

Q. How would you define an Arms Race?

1. Two or more countries start to build and stockpile more potent weapons than others.
2. The countries sell all the weapons they build.
3. The weapons built are not meant to be used in a war.
4. It involves buying more nuclear weapons and spending heavily on other types of firearms.

Q. When did the USA drop the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, Japan?

1. 1945
2. 1947
3. 1939
4. 1940

Q. The world is engaged in an ongoing arms race. Countries are spending lots of money on their military to build or buy bigger and stronger weapons. If you had the power to change the world, how would you solve this problem?

1. Stockpile weapons and increase military spending.
2. Support and promote disarmament.
3. Encourage countries to stop seeing each other as adversaries.
4. Enforce disarmament on other countries to ensure their threat to your country is neutralised.

Q. Assertion [A]: An arms race has severe consequences in both economic and security terms.
Reason [R]: Large-scale arms acquisition strains a country's resources and displaces more productive forms of investment.

1. Both A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A.
2. Both A and R are correct but R is not the correct explanation of A.
3. A is correct but R is incorrect.
4. Both A and R are incorrect.

Q. Which of these are global nuclear disarmament treaties?

1. Partial Test Ban Treaty
2. Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
3. Universal declaration of human rights
4. The Treaty of Versailles

Q. There have been many peace treaties signed for nuclear disarmament. However, India has not signed any. What do you think could be the reason?

1. India does not support the global disarmament treaties.
2. India believes these treaties allow only a few countries to possess nuclear weapons.
3. India believes in universal disarmament.
4. India has plans to increase its nuclear arsenal.

Q. India is a vocal advocate of complete nuclear disarmament and has signed all major nuclear disarmament treaties.

1. True
2. False

Q. When was the Partial Test Ban Treaty signed between the USA and the former USSR?

1. 1950
2. 1961
3. 1963
4. 1970

Q. Which 20th-century superpowers promoted nuclear disarmament deals?

1. India
2. China
3. USA
4. USSR

Q. Which of these hold true for a nuclear bomb?

1. The nuclear bomb was first used in the Second World War.
2. After the world war, countries stopped making new nuclear bombs.
3. A single bomb is capable of large scale destruction.
4. The bomb dropped on Hiroshima is the only known use of the nuclear bomb in war.

Q. Which of the following is not a treaty signed by the major nuclear powers to slow down the arms race?

1. Nuclear Proliferation Treaty (NPT)
2. Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT)
3. Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT)
4. Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT)

Q. Which of these countries has not signed any global nuclear disarmament deals?

1. USA
2. Russia
3. England
4. India

Q. What was the global military spending in the year 2017?

1. 5 billion dollars
2. 1.5 billion dollars
3. 1.7 trillion dollars
4. 5.4 trillion dollars

Q. Which of the following banned the development of new nuclear weapons and the improvement of old weapons?

1. Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
2. Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
3. Partial Test Ban Treaty
4. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

Q. Arms race refers to the competition among countries to procure weapons and ammunition.

1. True
2. False

Q. Assertion (A): The US dropped the atomic bomb in Japan to dominate in the war.
Reason (R): The United Nations was formed on the 24th of October, 1945, in a bid to restore and maintain world peace.

Select the correct option:

1. Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A.
2. Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A.
3. A is true, but R is false.
4. A is false, but R is true.

Q. Which of the following is not an arms control agreement?

1. Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT)
2. Nuclear Proliferation Treaty (NPT)
3. Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT)
4. Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT)

Q. Which of the following prohibited and prevented countries from carrying out nuclear tests?

1. Partial Test Ban Treaty
2. Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
3. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
4. Strategic Arms Limitation Talks