Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Political Science

Chapter

Contemporary World Politics: Security in the Contemporary World

Question:

Which of the following statements is incorrect about Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, NPT?

Options:

It was an arms control treaty.

Those countries that had tested and manufactured nuclear weapons before 1960 were allowed to keep their weapons.

The NPT did not abolish nuclear weapons.

None of them.

Correct Answer:

Those countries that had tested and manufactured nuclear weapons before 1960 were allowed to keep their weapons.

Explanation:

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.