Arms Race and Disarmament

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. What is the ultimate goal of the NPT?

1. To eliminate nuclear sources from the world
2. Facilitating nuclear energy for peaceful purposes
3. Nuclear disarmament
4. World peace

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

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

Q. Disarmament means ______.

1. The creation of weapons
2. The destruction of weapons
3. None of these
4. Both of the above

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

1. True
2. False

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

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

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

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

Q. Answer the following questions in six sentences each:
Why is India championing the cause of Disarmament as very essential for the present day world?

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

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

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

Q. Which of the following curtailed the development of strategic missiles capable of carrying nuclear weapons?

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

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

1. True
2. False

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

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

Q. Nuclear arsenal reduction treaties have not been sufficient for disarmament thus far because _______.

1. They have not passed appropriate review by the IAEA
2. They have been exclusively bilateral between the United States and the USSR/Russia
3. They require the states signing them to get approval from all other NPT parties
4. They do not get rid of the weapons that really matter

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

1. True
2. False

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

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

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. 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. India brought a resolution in the UN General Assembly in favour of disarmament in _____________.

1. $1995$
2. $1965$
3. $1976$
4. $1956$

Q. Due to disarmanent, there is increase in the number of large scale wars in the world.

1. True
2. False

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 an obligation of the NWS under the treaty?

1. NWS may not transfer nuclear weapons to NNWS
2. NWS may not assist or encourage any NNWS to acquire or manufacture nuclear weapons
3. NWS must prevent NNWS from acquiring or building nuclear power reactors on their own territory.
4. NWS must pursue negotiations on nuclear disarmament, and general and complete disarmament

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

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

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

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

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

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

Q. What kinds of weapons were used in this war?

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.