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Please type your First & Second Name

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These activities can be viewed as attempts to solve nuclear nonproliferation issues outside the boundaries of the existing international legal framework

Assassination of nuclear scientists

Political pressure

Imposing of economic sanctions

Everything mentioned

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Choose not correct feature of the Tenth NPT Review Conference:

China held more active even assertive position

Coordination between five nuclear-weapon states were minimal or even was absent at all

It showed that the contradictions between nuclear-weapon states and non-nuclear-weapons states deepened

It ended with adopting a final document

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The plan of Foreign Minister of Poland Adam Rapacki proposed to create a NWFZ in Central Europe in the territories of:

Russia, Ukraine, Belarus

Germany, Austria, Poland, Hungary, Switzerland, Slovenia, Slovakia, Czechia

Poland, Czechoslovakia, West Germany and East Germany

Poland and Germany

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The future Non-Proliferation Treaty was discussed and developed in the period of:

1961-1962

1965-1968

1953-1957

1945-1952

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Great Britain tested nuclear weapons for the first time:

On October 3, 1952

On May 14, 1965

On July 16, 1945

On August 29, 1949

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In his Memorandum the US Secretary of War Henry Stimson asserted that:

The states should conclude the convention on the non-use of nuclear weapons under any circumstances prohibition of the production and storage of weapons based on the use of atomic energy, destruction within three months of the entire stock of finished and unfinished atomic weapons production

The question of sharing the weapons with other nations and upon what terms becomes a primary question of the US foreign policy

The Chinese Communist nuclear weapons program has brought particular pressure on India and Japan, which may both be approaching decisions to undertake nuclear weapons programs

It is not enough to take atomic weapon out of the hands of the soldiers because it must be put into the hands of those who will know how to strip its military casing and adapt it to the arts of peace

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Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was extended:

In 1970

In 1995 indefinitely

In 2020

In 1995 for a 25-years term

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The problem of deployment of nuclear weapons outside the territory of states, possessing nuclear weapons, has existed since:

1991

1950s

2023

1960s

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Primarily these two countries are quantitatively building up nuclear weapons at this moment

Israel and France

Great Britain and China

India and Pakistan

The US and Russia

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State-Parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty gather to review the functioning of the Treaty:

Upon request of any State-Party

Each five years

Each seven years

When a new crisis in nuclear domain emerges

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In what period in 1950s the USSR, the US and Great Britain respected the moratorium on nuclear tests:

1953-1957

1958-1961

1950-1952

Such a moratorium never existed

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Among the risks of nuclear terrorism and nuclear security infrastructure vulnerability can be listed:

Illicit trafficking in nuclear materials

Unauthorized access to nuclear materials and munitions

Everything mentioned

Sabotage at nuclear facilities

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China conducted its last nuclear test in:

In 1965

In 1992

In 1996

In 1964

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The Ten Nation Committee on Disarmament was established in:

1960

1968

1970

1946

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The USSR and the US ratified the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty:

In 1995

In 1992

In 1968

In 1970

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The DPRK proclaimed its withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in:

2006

1993

2003

2017

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The USSR tested nuclear weapons for the first time:

On July 16, 1945

On August 29, 1949

On February 13, 1960

On October 3, 1952

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Find a definition of the term “threshold country”:

Countries that already possess weapons of mass destruction, but do not officially recognize this fact

Countries that have adopted a program for the creation (or possession) of weapons of mass destruction, that have begun to implement it, but do not yet have the real capabilities to develop WMD-programs to the full extent

Countries whose leaders have made the appropriate political decisions, and the existing technical and scientific base, developments in the field of creating WMD make it possible for them in the near future to become the real owners of such weapons

Countries ready to stop developing their WMD-programs and to disarm

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Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was signed:

On March 5, 1970

On July 1, 1968

On August 5, 1963

On May 26, 1972

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France tested nuclear weapons for the first time:

On July 16, 1945

On October 3, 1952

On August 29, 1949

On February 13, 1960

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The SVR Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Public Report “New Challenge after the Cold War: Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction” (1993) also known as:

PIR Center Report

Primakov Report

Evstafiev Report

WMD-nonproliferation report

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It was one of the stumbling blocks to develop an international agreement on preventing the increase of states possessing nuclear weapons:

There is no correct answer

The Cuban Missile Crisis

The first nuclear test conducted by China in 1964

The plans of the US to create multilateral nuclear forces within NATO

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Choose not correct thesis related to red mercury

Red mercury is a myth

In 1990s under the guise of transactions with red mercury, large-scale international financial frauds were carried out

Red mercury does not exist in nature

Red mercury is a kind of fissile material which is needed to create a nuclear bomb

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The Tenth NPT Review Conference was held in 2022 but not in 2020 because of:

Ukrainian crisis

There was no need to hold the Conference

The aggravation of international tensions

COVID-2019 pandemic

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When was the world’s first nuclear test conducted?

On August 29, 1949, in Semipalatinsk site by the USSR

On 13 February 1960 in the Sahara desert region of Tanezrouft, French Algeria, by France

On July 16, 1945, in Alamogordo desert in New Mexico by the USA

In 2006 by the DPRK

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Article IV of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty assumes that:

All the Parties to the Treaty have the right to develop research, production and use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes without discrimination

All the Parties to the Treaty have the right to develop research, production and use of nuclear energy both for peaceful and military purposes without discrimination

Only USSR, US, China, France and Great Britain have the right to develop nuclear weapons capabilities

All the parties to the Treaty take responsibility to conduct negotiations on general and complete disarmament

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These countries located in the Middle East is the members of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention and Chemical Weapons Convention

Türkiye, Iran, Iraq

Saudia Arabia, Israel, Egypt

Egypt, Israel, Iraq

Syria, Iran, Iraq

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This country was not a member of the Ten Nation Committee on Disarmament:

India

Bulgaria

Italy

Canada

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The very first ideas to establish control over nuclear energy emerged:

Only after the Second World War when the bomb was tested

Already during the Second World War before the bomb was tested

In 1957

In 1968

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Who was the author of the Atom for Peace speech?

Andrey Gromyko

Bernard Baruch

Dwight Eisenhower

James Byrnes

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China tested nuclear weapons for the very first time:

On February 13, 1960

On August 29, 1949

On October 16, 1964

On July 16, 1945

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The Statute of the IAEA came into force in:

1957

1963

1970

1968

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According to the Article II of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty:

Nuclear-weapon states takes responsibility to conclude P5-agreement on nuclear disarmament

Nuclear-weapon states takes responsibility not to manufacture nuclear weapons after July 1, 1968

Non-nuclear-weapon states take responsibility to assist nuclear-weapon states in transferring nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive device outside their national territories

Non-nuclear-weapon states take responsibiity not to receive the transfer from any transferor whatsoever of nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices or of control over such weapons or explosive devices directly, or indirectly

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These countries never signed and ratified the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty:

India, Israel, Pakistan, South Sudan

India, Israel, Pakistan, the DPRK

France, India, Israel, Pakistan

India, Israel, Pakistan, China

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When was the Irish resolution finally passed unanimously:

In 1960

In 1968

In 1961

In 1959

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