Nuclear Non-Proliferation

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.