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Parent topics
- Arms control [r]: Treaties and implementation agreements to restrict the development, production, deployment, or transfer of specified weapons or weapons technologies. [e]
- Terrorism [r]: Any act, nearly always violent, unpredictable, and chaotic in nature, often targetting civilians, intended to create an atmosphere of fear in order to obtain a political objective. [e]
Subtopics
Technologies
- Ballistic missile [r]: A guided missile which, once its engines stop firing, follows a generally parabolic path to its target, defined by momentum, aerodynamic resistance, and gravity [e]
- Cruise missile [r]: A guided missile that uses aerodynamic forces, as well as active jet or rocket propulsion, to stay airborne and to adjust its course. [e]
- Weapons of mass destruction [r]: Weapons that cause death or injury not primarily through kinetic energy of projectiles or the detonation of conventional explosives, but rather produce large-scale effects greater than possible with the same weight of explosives weapons; by means heat, blast and radiation from nuclear weapon; poisoning by chemical weapon; infectious disease by biological weapons; or acute or chronic radiation syndromes from radiological weapons. [e]
- Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism [r]: Commission created in 2008 by the U.S. Congress, to evaluate and recommend action for the threat of terrorist use of weapons of mass destruction [e]
- Biological weapon [r]: Living organisms, or substances produced by living organisms, used as weapons to produce death or disease in human or agricultural populations [e]
- Biological Weapons and Toxins Convention [r]: International agreement banning the production and use of biological weapons, recognizing that there are also legitimate medical, research, and industrial uses for organisms that have potential use in biological warfare [e]
- Chemical weapon [r]: A weapon that cause death or disease by means of chemical interaction with the metabolism of the victim, as opposed to causing injury through blast, thermal, or other effects not on a molecular level [e]
- Chemical Weapons Convention [r]: Arms control treaty which prohibits the production, use and possession of chemical weapons and related assets. [e]
- Nuclear weapon [r]: A weapon that produces extremely powerful explosions from principles involving subatomic particle reactions, rather than the chemical reactions among atoms that power conventional explosives [e]
- International Atomic Energy Agency [r]: An international organization established in July 1957, which seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy and to inhibit its use for military purposes. [e]
- Special nuclear material [r]: A term for radioactive material of a grade that can be used in a nuclear weapon [e]
- Radiological weapon [r]: A weapon that uses explosives or other mechanical means to disperse radioactive substances that present a hazard of producing acute radiation syndrome or other harmful effects, such as contaminating an area and making it unusable [e]
- Conventional weapons [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Man-portable air defense system [r]: A surface-to-air missile that can be carried and fired by a single soldier. [e]
States and non-states of concern
- al-Qaeda [r]: International islamist terrorist network. Responsible for the 9-11 attack and other terrorist attacks. [e]
- Indian nuclear weapons [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Iranian nuclear program [r]: Iran's national programs in nuclear energy, for peaceful and possible nuclear weapons purposes [e]
- Israeli nuclear program [r]: Israel's civilian and military nuclear engineering programs [e]
- North Korean nuclear weapons [r]: Add brief definition or description
- North Korean missile program [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pakistani nuclear weapons [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Russian nuclear weapons [r]: Add brief definition or description
Other related topics
- 1925 Geneva Protocol [r]: A widely ratified international treaty banning the use, as opposed to the manufacture, of chemical weapons and biological weapons [e]
