Weapons/Proliferation

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Weapons/Proliferation

• Foreign Policy

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Issues involved

• Regulating nuclear weapons
• The Nuclear Market
• Biological and Chemical Weapons
• Conventional weapons
• Nuclear Bunker Buster

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Solutions

• After WWII many nations were developing Nuclear
  weapons.
• The UN Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty granted
  access to Nuclear technology for any country that
  would use it for peaceful uses not weapons.

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U.S. cooperation

• 1996 , more than fifty members of the United
  Nations signed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty,
  agreeing to terminate all forms of nuclear
  explosions except for certain maintenance tests
• 1991, after cold war United States and Russia
  worked together and signed the Arms Reduction
  Treaty. This reduced the amount of nuclear
  weapons made by both sides
• In 2002 The U.S. and Russia signed the Strategic
  Offensive Reduction Treaty, lowering active
  warheads from 6,000 to 1,700 and 2,200.

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Roles

• President-puts out suggestions, treaties, new
  weapons etc. Discusses weapon issues with other
  countries. Can issue a 30 day invasion
• State Department-meets with other foreign
  officials, deals with security issues
  national/foreign.
• Congress-everything needs to be passed through
  them, they have to vote for documents before they
  can become official, and the only one that can
  declare war.

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Opinion

• We agree with the policy. We think that with the
  unstable state of some nations that it is
  important to have the most sophisticated weapons.
  We think that they should cut unnecessary
  spending and use the money for different causes