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Parent topics
- Counterproliferation [r]: The set of activities that detect and monitor the threat of weapons of special concern against one's own nation and one's allies. [e]
- Nonproliferation [r]: An aspect of arms control that focuses on the dissemination of technology and materials from nations acknowledged to have them, to those national and non-national actors who do not. [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]
- United Nations [r]: An international organization that was founded in 1945 with the mission of preventing international war, protecting human rights, supporting social progress and justice, and helping with economic progress. [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]
Subtopics
- 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]
Other related topics
- Arms control [r]: Treaties and implementation agreements to restrict the development, production, deployment, or transfer of specified weapons or weapons technologies. [e]
- Christopher Ford [r]: Arms control and intelligence specialist; Director, Center for Technology and Global Security; Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute; George W. Bush Administration United States Special Representative for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Verification, Compliance, and Implementation [e]
- Dual-use [r]: Materials or equipment capable of being used either in civilian applications, or for military applications subject to counterproliferation controls, or for other sensitive uses such as the drug trade [e]
- India [r]: Republic in South Asia; the world's largest democracy. Borders Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, China, Nepal, Pakistan [e]
- Iran [r]: Country in the Middle East. [e]
- Iraq War [r]: Invasion of Iraq by a coalition of countries, led by the United States, in 2003, and subsequent occupation [e]
- Israel [r]: Country in the Middle East. [e]
- Pakistan [r]: Country in southern Asia, established as a Muslim state split from India in 1947, bordering the Arabian Sea to the south, India to the east, Iran and Afghanistan to the west, and China to the north. [e]
- Plutonium [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Uranium [r]: A silvery-white metallic chemical element in the actinide series of the periodic table that has the symbol U and atomic number 92. [e]
- Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies [r]: A voluntary international cooperation agreement to reduce the proliferation of weapons, both conventional and weapons of mass destruction [e]
