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Nuclear weapons: experts alarmed by new Pentagon 'war-fighting' doctrine

The Guardian    June 19, 2019

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/19/nuclear-weapons-pentagon-us-military-doctrine

Questions

1       According to the excerpt, how does US nuclear policy seem to have changed?

                                                                                                   

                                                                                                   

2       Research and answer the following questions.

a.    How many nuclear arms exist now? Which countries have the most?

                                                                                                   

b.    Name countries that are allowed to have nuclear weapons.

                                                                                                   

c.     Name countries that are not allowed to have nuclear weapons but have them.

                                                                                                   

d.    Which parts of the planet do you think a nuclear war can start? Why?

                                                                                                   

                                                                                                   

                                                                                                   

Answer Keys

1       According to the excerpt, how does US nuclear policy seem to have changed?

Nuclear weapons have been thought to be used as deterrent to show the power of the country, but it seems that the US keeps nuclear weapons with a view to using them.

(reference: During the cold war, nuclear arms race was intensified. In the past decades, efforts of nuclear disarmament were made, but in recent years it had been reported that nuclear arms race started again.)

2       Research and answer the following questions.

a.    How many nuclear warheads exist now? Which countries have the most?

There are approximately 13,890 nuclear warheads in the world now. U.S. and Russia have 90 % of them, each having about half of them.

b.    Name countries that are allowed to have nuclear weapons.

U.S., Russia, England, China, and France

c.     Name countries that are not allowed to have nuclear weapons but have them.

India, Pakistan, North Korea, and, as an open secret, Israel

d.    Which part of the planet do you think a nuclear war can start? Why?

India and Pakistan have been in bad terms over Kashmir and religious differences. Yemen is in a proxy war between Saudi Arabia, and U.A.E., and Iran, in other words, between Sunni and Shi’ar. The U.S. is supplying weapons to the former. Recent drone attack on the Saudi oil facilities was carried out by rebels in Yemen who are backed by Iran. Iran has been provoked by the U.S for a long time, and therefore, war could breakout directly between them, too.