Match List - I with List - II.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)

The correct answer is Option (1): (A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)

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

NOTE: The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) was adopted in 1992 and entered into force in 1997.

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.

(Two treaties were signed in 1972 Biological Weapons Convention and The Anti-ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty in the given question. But on seeing the options, Option (1) - (A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(II), (D)-(I) happens to be the only correct answer.)