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21Polaris Sales Agreement — The Polaris Sales Agreement was an agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom which formally arranged for the Polaris missile system to be provided to the UK to maintain its independent nuclear… …
22United Kingdom and weapons of mass destruction — The United Kingdom is one of the five official nuclear weapon states under the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty and has an independent nuclear deterrent. The United Kingdom renounced the use of chemical and biological weapons in 1956 and… …
23international relations — a branch of political science dealing with the relations between nations. [1970 75] * * * Study of the relations of states with each other and with international organizations and certain subnational entities (e.g., bureaucracies and political… …
24John Mearsheimer — John J. Mearsheimer John J. Mearsheimer Full name John J. Mearsheimer Born 1947 Era International relations theory Region …
25Mutual assured destruction — Nuclear weapons History Warfare Arms race Design Testing Effects Delivery Espionage …
26nuclear strategy — ▪ military Introduction the formation of tenets and strategies for producing and using nuclear weapons. Nuclear strategy is no different from any other form of strategy in that it involves relating military means to political ends. In this …
27Coercive Diplomacy — or forceful persuasion is the attempt to get a target, a state, a group (or groups) within a state, or a nonstate actor to change its objectionable behavior through either the threat to use force or the actual use of limited force. [1] This term… …
28Office of Financial Markets (U.S.) — The Office of Financial Markets is an agency of the United States federal government in the United States Department of the Treasury. OFM serves as the Department s advisor on broad matters of domestic finance, financial markets, Federal, State… …
29Single Integrated Operational Plan — The Single Integrated Operational Plan (SIOP) was the United States general plan for nuclear war from 1961 to 2003. The SIOP gave the President of the United States a range of targeting options, and described launch procedures and target sets… …
30CIA transnational activities in counterproliferation — This article deals with activities of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, specifically dealing with arms control, weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and weapons proliferation. It attempts to look at the process of tasking and analyzing, rather… …
