Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Political Science

Chapter

Contemporary World Politics: Security in the Contemporary World

Question:

The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) was held in:

Options:

1990

1991

1992

1993

Correct Answer:

1992

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (3) - 1992

The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) was held in 1992.

Traditional views of security do not rule out other forms of cooperation as well. The most important of these are disarmament, arms control, and confidence building. Disarmament requires all states to give up certain kinds of weapons. For example, the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) and the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) banned the production and possession of these weapons. More than 155 states acceded to the BWC and 193 states acceded to the CWC. Both conventions included all the great powers. But the superpowers — the US and Soviet Union — did not want to give up the third type of weapons of mass destruction, namely, nuclear weapons, so they pursued arms control

NOTE: The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) was adopted in 1992 and entered into force in 1997.