Match List - I with List - II.
| List - I (Treaties) | List - II (Full Form) | ||
| (A) | SALT | (I) | The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty |
| (B) | START | (II) | The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty |
| (C) | ABM | (III) | The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty |
| (D) | NPT | (IV) | The Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → (A)-(IV), (B)-(I), (C)-(II), (D)-(III)
(A) SALT — this matches (IV) The Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty.
(B) START — this matches (I) The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.
(C) ABM — this matches (II) The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
(D) NPT — this matches (III) The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
NCERT (2026-27): “Traditional Security and Cooperation … 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.… Traditional Security and Cooperation … The US and Soviet Union signed a number of other arms control treaties including the Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty II or SALT II and the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START). The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) of 1968 was an arms control treaty in the sense that it regulated the acquisition of nuclear weapons: those countries that had tested and manufactured nuclear weapons before 1967 were allowed to keep their weapons; and those that had not done so were to give up the right to acquire them. The NPT did not abolish nuclear weapons; rather, it limited the number of countries that could have them.” |