It highlighted a new threat because it was a growing fear of falling into nuclear war and it was questionable whether or not it is ethical to have them in order to protect the country, but it can also kill millions of people at once. The idea of terrorist getting their hands on a nuclear weapon was very frightening and if people knew that they had a nuclear weapon it would cause people to panic.
2. Why is proliferation such a strong concern for the United States?
Proliferation is the spreading of nuclear weapons in other countries, and the United States wants to prevent it at all costs. The reason is that the United States doesn't want other countries to be able to threaten them with the nuclear weapons, and nuclear war would just destroy humanity so the United States wants to prevent a nuclear war from happening. Having countries such as North Korea and Iraq having nuclear weapons would be extremely dangerous for the United States because of all of the tension between the two countries, which was created because of nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons are a part of the most complex and challenging foreign policy problems.
3. What is deterrence?
Deterrence is the treat to retaliate with nuclear weapons, if a nuclear war is started, which was suppose to prevent them from starting a nuclear war.
4. Explain the importance of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The Cuban Missile Crisis was when the Soviet Union tried to store nuclear weapons in Cuba which was only 90 miles away from Florida. This caused America to worry and considered invading Cuba, but ultimately invading Cuba would cause a full out nuclear war to happen. After being on the border line of nuclear war for thirteen days the Soviet Union and the United States made a deal that if the Soviet Union took their missiles out of Cuba then the United States wouldn't invade Cuba and they would take their missiles out of Turkey.
5. President John F. Kennedy worried that twenty-five nations would have nuclear weapons by the 1970s. Why do you think his worry did not come to pass?
The reason that it didn't happen is because a lot of other countries also did not want tons of countries having nuclear weapons. Some countries signed a treaty called Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which is that it prevents other countries than the five that already have them, to have nuclear weapons but all of the countries could peaceful use nuclear energy. Both the United States and the Soviet Union cooperated to prevent proliferation because neither of them thought it was good for a lot of countries to have nuclear weapons. Since the power houses of the world agreed to stop proliferation, it did not happen.
6. What was the Cold War? How long did it last?
The Cold War was a stand off between the United States and the Soviet Union where both of them feared a nuclear attack from the other, therefore they kept building up the amount of nuclear weapons in case one country attacks the other. The Cold War started in 1946 and ended in December of 1990 when the Soviet Union ceased to exist.
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