Nuclear+Proliferation

=**ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS**=

=**EQ1 Who should determine who does and does not get to have WMDs? **= =** EQ2 Why would countries want to have nuclear weapons? **= =** EQ3 Do nuclear weapons make the world a safer place? **= =** EQ 4 Is it possible to un-invent any object deemed too dangerous to exist? **= =** EQ5 How can weak countries protect themselves from powerful country? **= =** EQ6 Should there be a limit on scientific development? **= =** EQ7 What makes a country powerful? **=


 * =**//Identify key terms: nuclear weapons, WMD, Proliferation, Treaty, Unilateral, Deterrence //**=

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[|Hiroshima: Then & Now]Photo Choices Reading Part I: The Problem of Nuclear Weapons - Mark up graded [|Hiroshima: Then & Now] Photo Gallery Video: "White Lightning/Black Rain" Watch & create a video dialect journal - same style as was used in Vietnam- Cold War DJ(copy machines were down) media type="custom" key="24829606" [|J Robert Oppenheimer - Quote & 1 minute video - "Now I am become Death"]
 * The Cold War & Nuclear Arms Race
 * Deterrence
 * Cuban Missile Crisis
 * Arms Control
 * End of the Cold War

[|Soviet Tsar Bomba + Commentary]

**Nuclear Proliferation - Part of the Cold War!**
= Bay of Pigs Invasion = Kennedy Administration 1960 response to Cuban Revolution

= = = Cuba n Missile Crisis =

[[file:APPARTS -JFK - Cuba.doc]]
[|Choices - Cuban Missile Crisis]

[|3 films - Castro, Kennedy, Khrushchev]

[|Cuban Missile Crisis - Soviet & Cuban Perspective]

**[|Khrushchev wrote:]**
==**You are disturbed over Cuba. You say that this disturbs you because it is ninety miles by sea from the coast of the United States of America. But. . . you have placed destructive missile weapons, which you call offensive, in Turkey, literally next to us. . .**==

==**I therefore make this proposal: We are willing to remove from Cuba the means which you regard as offensive...Your representatives will make a declaration to the effect that the United States...will remove its analogous means from Turkey. . . . And after that, persons entrusted by the United Nations Security Council could inspect on the spot the fulfillment of the pledges made. . . .**== Discuss with your partner - Perspective & possible Bias

Brace Yourself for Survival of Thermonuclear Warfare

What to do in the event of an attack -Create your own personal Bomb Shelter & How to [|Duck & Cover]



But it's not all funny videos!

[|Testing "Mike" - the hydrogen bomb 1952]

Doomsday Clock 

media type="custom" key="27012754" [|Doomsday Clock] [|Choices Nuclear Weapons Program]

[|Choices Experts Chart Nuclear Weapons]


 * //[| Russians - Sting 1984] //**
 * //[|Lyrics - Russians] //**
 * //[|The Brink of Apocalypse 1] //**
 * //This series of videos gives the details of the "Able Archer" incident in November of 1983. During which a near nuclear catastrophe was almost caused by the routine testing of nuclear communications systems. The new Soviet leader, Yuri Andropov formerly the head of the KGB spy network, was convinced that the American missiles were about to be launched from the new locations in western Europe. With the deployment of these "new & improved" weapons, the NATO alliance & the United States could attack the Soviet Union in a matter of 8-10 minutes. Calmer heads prevailed when the Soviets realized it was just a test. This incident was classified for over 20 years. //**



=**[|2016 Map + Questions]**= [|Proliferation or Non-Proliferation]

[|Iran Nuclear Deal #1] [|Zakaria's Interview]

What's Next??

[|Iran Nuclear Deal]
 * //[|India vs. Pakistan]//**

[|UN Nuclear Disaramament] [|WSJ - Iranian Missile Tests May 2016] [|CNN - Iran Missile Tests 2017]

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 * //Unconventional Battlefields - Hollywood is at it again! //**
 * //FYI: This 1980s film "War Games" showed that the world was indeed in danger of thermonuclear warfare due to a computer glitch. It didn't win any Oscars, but was a classic among teenagers of the 1980s, I ought to know. Fun fact: This movie came out in April of 1983 approximately 6 months before the "Able Archer" Incident. Yes, that is a very young Matthew Broderick or Inspector Gadget. //**

RESOURCES [|Doomsday Timeline w- full explanations] [|Smashing Pumpkins Video - Doomsday Clock] [|Iran Nuclear Deal #1] [|Zakaria's Interview] [|6 big questions]

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media type="custom" key="27013502" Isai Hashimoto's time lapse Photography - does not include North Korea which leads you to question this site. The list below does verify the testing done by the United States, **but is by no means** - complete proof of the number of US explosions. Working on the number of explosions for the other countries involved. [|US Nuclear Test Sites]