Study the following paragraph and answer the five questions that follow: The First Nuclear explosion was undertaken by India in 1974. Our first PM had always put faith in science and technology for rapidly building a modern India. A significant component of India's industrialisation plans was the nuclear programme initiated in the late 1940s under the guidance of Homi J. Bhabha. When communist China conducted a nuclear test in 1964, the permanent members of the UN Security Council tried to impose the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) of 1968. India always considered the NPT as discriminatory and had refused to sign it, and also further refused to sign the CIBT. When India conducted its first nuclear test, it was termed as a peaceful explosion. Later India conducted a series of tests, Pakistan soon followed. India’s Nuclear doctrine of credible minimum nuclear deterrence professes “no first use.”
Name the four countries that have not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
India, Pakistan, North Korea, and Israel
The four countries that have not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) are **India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea**. These countries either never signed the treaty or later withdrew from it.
Incorrect options: (a) USA, China, Russia, and France are recognized nuclear states under the NPT. (b) Iran and Germany are signatories to the NPT. (d) Germany is an NPT signatory, making this option incorrect.
Important Questions from The Cold War Era and Non-Aligned Movement
Who was president of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962?
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) of 1968 was an arms control treaty in the sense that it regulated the acquisition of nuclear weapons, those countries that had tested and manufactured nuclear weapons before 1967 were allowed to keep these weapons.
Statement II: The NPT did not abolish nuclear weapons rather it limited the number of countries that could have them.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
The U.S. extended massive financial help for reviving Europe's economy under which of the following plans in 1945?
Why have some countries not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty?
A. Because the treaty ensures that only five countries will possess the technological know-how to build nuclear energy.
B. Because public opinion in these countries is against the signing of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
C. Because it is discriminatory as it allows only five countries to possess nuclear weapons.
D. Because the five nuclear powers don’t allow other countries to sign the treaty.
E. Because of political infighting at the domestic level.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
During the Cold War, the world was divided into how many blocs?
