Which one of the following treaties/ convention is not correctly matched with its year?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty - 1968
The Anti-ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty was signed in 1972, not 1968; the Biological Weapons Convention (1972), the Chemical Weapons Convention (1997) and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (1968) are matched correctly.
NCERT (2025-26): “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.… Traditional Security and Cooperation … 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…” |