The US and Soviet’Union signed a number of other arms control treaties including the Strategic Arms

Question

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The US and Soviet’Union signed a number of other arms control treaties including the Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty II (SALT II) and the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START). The Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) of 1968 was an arms control treaty in the sense that it regulated the acquisition of nuclear weapons, those countries that had tested and manufactured nuclear weapons before 1967 were allowed to keep their weapons and those that had not done so were to give up the right to acquire them. The NPT did not abolish nuclear weapons; rather, it limited the number of countries that could have them.

1. What is arms control treaty?

2. Was NPT an arms control treaty? Why?

3. What was the intention behind regulation of NPT?

Answer 1

1. To regulate the acquisition or development of weapons among countries. 

2. Yes, because it regulated the acquisition of nuclear weapons to protect the world from large seat destruction. 

3. It did not abolish nuclear weapons rather it limited the number of countries that could have them.