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Nuclear weapons dangers. “Today, the Cold War has disappeared, but thousands of those weapons have not. In a strange turn of history, the threat of global nuclear war has gone down, but the risk of nuclear attack has gone up.”—President Obama. “More nations have acquired these weapons.”. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
“Today, the Cold War has disappeared, but thousands of those weapons have not. In a strange turn of history, the threat of global nuclear war has gone down, but the risk of nuclear attack has gone up.”—President Obama
A nuclear weapons test ban has not prevented North Korea, for example, from testing, and the U.S. itself has not ratified the Nuclear Weapons Test Ban Treaty.
Video of above ground tests: http://player.discoveryeducation.com/
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Pakistan’s chief nuclear scientist, A.Q. Khan, secretly provided nuclear weapons information and materials to such nations as North Korea and Iran.
The U.S. has declared that it has intelligence revealing Al Qaeda’s efforts to acquire a nuclear weapon.
The Non-Proliferation Treaty has not been ratified by three nations that possess nuclear weapons—India, Pakistan, and Israel. North Korea did ratify the treaty, but violated it, then quit the treaty seven years ago.