Disarmament requires all the states to give up:

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 3

The correct answer is Option (3) → Weapons

Option (1) Violence — Incorrect. Disarmament is one of the forms of cooperation among states over arms, along with arms control and confidence building.

Option (2) Arms Control — Incorrect. Arms control is a separate form of cooperation: it regulates the acquisition or development of weapons instead of giving them up. The superpowers pursued arms control because they did not want to give up nuclear weapons.

Option (3) Weapons — Correct. Disarmament requires all states to give up certain kinds of weapons. For example, the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention and the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention banned the production and possession of these weapons.

Option (4) Internal War — Incorrect. An internal war is fighting within a country; disarmament is about the weapons states hold.

NCERT (2026-27): “Traditional Security and Cooperation … 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. Arms control regulates the acquisition or development of weapons. The Anti-ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty in 1972 tried to stop the United States and Soviet Union from using ballistic missiles as a defensive shield to launch a nuclear attack.…”