Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Political Science

Chapter

Contemporary World Politics: Security in the Contemporary World

Question:

Which of the following statement is incorrect about the disarmament of the two superpowers?

Options:

Both the superpowers, the US and the Soviet Union signed the Biological Weapons Convention.

Both the superpowers, the US and the Soviet Union signed the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)

Both the superpowers, the US and the Soviet Union signed the treaties to give up Nuclear Weapons.

None of the above.

Correct Answer:

Both the superpowers, the US and the Soviet Union signed the treaties to give up Nuclear Weapons.

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option 3 - Both the superpowers, the US and the Soviet Union signed the treaties to give up Nuclear Weapons.

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 1992 Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) banned the production and possession of these weapons. More than 155 states acceded to the BWC and 181 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.