Question 1

What two world leaders signed the Bilateral Destruction Agreement to end production of chemical weapons and require destruction of existing stockpiles?

Accepted Answer

A)   John
B)   Richard M. Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev
C)   George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev
D)   Barack Obama and Boris Yeltsin

Question 2

What country provided Iran with light-water nuclear reactors at Bushehr and the fuel to run them?

Accepted Answer

A)   Russia
B)   North Korea
C)   Pakistan
D)   France

Question 3

Which U.S. president ordered the destruction of U.S. stockpiles of biological weapons.

Accepted Answer

A)   Woodrow Wilson
B)   John
C)   Jimmy Carter
D)   Richard M. Nixon

Question 4

Which of the following is a "nuclear-capable state"?

Accepted Answer

A)   Australia
B)   Japan
C)   South Korea
D)   All of the above

Question 5

With which of the countries that did not sign the NPT did the Unites States reach an agreement that permits bilateral trade in nuclear-related material?

Accepted Answer

A)   Israel
B)   Pakistan
C)   South Sudan
D)   India

Question 6

What international body is responsible for investigating violations of the NPT?

Accepted Answer

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Question 7

Who is Hassan Rouhani?

Accepted Answer

A)   Iran's supreme ayatollah
B)   The reformist president of Iran elected in 2013
C)   The religious leader who toppled the government of the Shah and instituted an Islamic revolution in Iran
D)   A hardline Iranian president who denied that the Holocaust ever happened

Question 8

What was the focus of America's 2010 Nuclear Posture Review?

Accepted Answer

A)   The prevention of nuclear terrorism
B)   Terminating the dissemination of nuclear weapons information by Pakistan and North Korea
C)   Destroying the nuclear weapons turned over to the United States by Libya
D)   Persuading South Korea not to undertake the development of nuclear weapons in response to North Korea provocations.

Question 9

What country has declared that if Iran retains a nuclear weapons capacity it will seek to match it?

Accepted Answer

A)   Isreal
B)   Iraq
C)   Egypt
D)   Saudi Arabia'

Question 10

What did the non-nuclear weapons states protest when the treaty came up for renewal in 1995?

Accepted Answer

A)   The violation of the NPT by Iran and North Korea
B)   The failure of the IAEA to make certain Iraq had abandoned its nuclear weapons program
C)   The failure of the nuclear weapons states to achieve nuclear disarmament
D)   The refusal of India and Pakistan to sign the NPT

Question 11

Washington pursued a two-track policy toward Iran, participating in ___________ and ___________ to pressure Tehran to cease enriching uranium

Accepted Answer

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Question 12

Which of the following describes America's biological weapons program?

Accepted Answer

A)   The U.S. never had a biological weapons program
B)   The U.S. destroyed its biological weapons after World War I.
C)   The U.S. biological weapons program accelerated during the Korean War
D)   The U.S. used biological weapons against Japan in World War II.

Question 13

Which country was one of those labeled by President George W. Bush as the "axis of evil"?

Accepted Answer

A)   Iran
B)   Iraq
C)   North Korea
D)   All of the above

Question 14

Which of the following is prohibited under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty?

Accepted Answer

A)   Developing nuclear energy for peaceful purposes
B)   Selling nuclear reactors nuclear weapons states to non-nuclear weapons states?
C)   Requiring the IAEA to oversee a country's effort to develop nuclear energy
D)   Allowing nuclear weapons states to retain nuclear weapons in perpetuity

Question 15

Which of the following conflicts led to public pressure to end the U.S. binary chemical weapons program?

Accepted Answer

A)   The Korean War (1950-1953) 
B)   The Persian Gulf War (1990-1991) 
C)   The Iraq-Iran War (1980-1988) 
D)   The Iraq War (2003-2009)

Question 16

What is Arak?

Accepted Answer

A)   The site of an Iranian heavy reactor that can facilitate production of plutonium
B)   Site of a crucial Iranian research laboratory
C)   Site of numerous centrifuges to produce highly enriched uranium
D)   The target of Stuxnet

Question 17

What country arranged the deal by which Syria surrendered its chemical weapons?

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Question 18

Why are centrifuges necessary to develop nuclear bombs?

Accepted Answer

A)   They are needed to provide plutonium.
B)   They are needed to discover uranium.
C)   They are needed to enrich uranium.
D)   They are needed to shape missile warheads.

Question 19

Which of the following is the principal means for export-control of nuclear-related trade?

Accepted Answer

A)   The Nuclear Suppliers Group
B)   The Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty
C)   The Proliferation Security Initiative
D)   The International Atomic Energy Agency

Question 20

When were IAEA routine inspections first found to be inadequate?

Accepted Answer

A)   In Iraq in the 1990s
B)   In Iran in the 1980s
C)   In North Korea in 2000
D)   In Libya in 2000

Exam 4: America and the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction

Which U.S. president ordered the destruction of U.S. stockpiles of biological weapons.

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With which of the countries that did not sign the NPT did the Unites States reach an agreement that permits bilateral trade in nuclear-related material?

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Which of the following is prohibited under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty?

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Washington pursued a two-track policy toward Iran, participating in ___________ and ___________ to pressure Tehran to cease enriching uranium

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Why are centrifuges necessary to develop nuclear bombs?

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Which of the following describes America's biological weapons program?

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What two world leaders signed the Bilateral Destruction Agreement to end production of chemical weapons and require destruction of existing stockpiles?

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When were IAEA routine inspections first found to be inadequate?

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Which of the following is a "nuclear-capable state"?

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What is Arak?

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What did the non-nuclear weapons states protest when the treaty came up for renewal in 1995?

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Which country was one of those labeled by President George W. Bush as the "axis of evil"?

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What country provided Iran with light-water nuclear reactors at Bushehr and the fuel to run them?

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Who is Hassan Rouhani?

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What was the focus of America's 2010 Nuclear Posture Review?

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Which of the following conflicts led to public pressure to end the U.S. binary chemical weapons program?

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What country arranged the deal by which Syria surrendered its chemical weapons?

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Which of the following is the principal means for export-control of nuclear-related trade?

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What country has declared that if Iran retains a nuclear weapons capacity it will seek to match it?

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What international body is responsible for investigating violations of the NPT?

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