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Pages 63-68

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... A ratified treaty of "unlimited duration" between the United States and the Soviet Union, adopted in 1972 and amended in 1974, strictly limiting each side's antiballistic missile (ABM) systems in order to prevent the deployment of nationwide ABM defenses or a base for such a defense.
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From page 64...
... Full-scope safeguards. The requirement in the Nonproliferation Treaty that nonnuclear weapons states that are parties to the treaty submit all their peaceful nuclear activities to safeguards administered by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
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From page 65...
... Among other provisions, it proposed follow-up talks as soon as CFE was signed, announced that in the future NATO's forces would be smaller and restructured, announced that NATO would rely on a new nuclear weapons strategy that would be "truly weapons of last resort," and proposed measures to make CSCE more prominent. Multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle (MIRV)
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From page 66...
... Multilateral agreement to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons negotiated by the United States, the Soviet Union, arid Great Britain and signed by over 140 nations. The treaty requires nonnuclear weapons states not to develop, manufacture, or acquire nuclear weapons and to accept IAEA full-scope safeguards on all of their nuclear facilities.
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From page 67...
... The energy released by the explosion of a nuclear weapon. It is generally measured in TNT equivalent, that is, the weight of a "conventional" trinitrotoluene explosion capable of producing the same energy release.
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  • strategic nuclear
  • weapons states
  • energy agency
  • nonnuclear weapons
  • nuclear warheads

  • reentry vehicles
  • international atomic
  • nuclear forces
  • thereby deter
  • signal collection

  • economic community
  • fissionable isotope
  • targetable reentry
  • weapon signatories
  • acquire nuclear

  • penetration aids
  • global elimination
  • surface ship
  • abm technologies
  • gravity bombs

  • missile force
  • independently targetable
  • csce regime
  • soviet strategic
  • administrative controls


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