Today, we will continue to look at the building up of nuclear arms, as well as the concept of nuclear non-proliferation. By the end of this lesson, you should be able to answer the following questions:
• Who has Nuclear Weapons?
• What is Nonproliferation and is it happening?
• What are the effects of Nuclear War?
Here are some websites to help you with your assignment.
To find out what countries have nuclear weapons:
Google "countries with nuclear weapons," also, these sites may help:
http://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/Nuclearweaponswhohaswhat
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/east/02/07/nkorea.timeline.nuclear/ are helpful for information on North Korea's development of nuclear weapons
To find out more about nonproloferation:
http://www.nti.org/h_learnmore/h3_tutorial.html
(After entering the site, click on tutorial and scroll through to find sections that interest you. Section 5 has a fine discussion of North Korea's noncompliance with nuclear nonproliferation.)
To find out more about the Agreed Framework of 1994:
The complete agreement can be found at: http://www.armscontrol.org/documents/af.asp
FRONTLINE's analysis can be found at: http://www.pbs.org/frontline/shows/kim/themes/lessons.html
Tomorrow we will begin watching a frontline episode called "Kim's Nuclear Gamble," focusing on the nuclear issue and North Korea.
Thursday, May 12, 2011
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