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  • Which of these four former-Soviet countries voluntarily gave up its nuclear arsenal after the dissolution of the Soviet Union?
    • A. Uzbekistan
    • B. Lithuania
    • C. Kazakhstan
    • D. Georgia

    Learn more: The lasting toll of Semipalatinsk’s nuclear testing

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  • North Korea announced October 9 of which year that it had successfully conducted its first nuclear test explosion?
    • A. 2002
    • B. 2006
    • C. 2008

    Learn more: North Korea’s Nuclear Test a Threat to Peace

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  • The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) signed by the USA and Soviet Union in 1991 resulted in:
    • A. Removal of about 80% of the strategic nuclear warheads then in existence.
    • B. An end to the development of new nuclear weapons systems.
    • C. A ban on strategic anti-missile defense systems.
    • D. Destruction of all strategic bombers on both sides.

    Learn more: The Legacy of START

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  • Which is the only country to have announced its withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty?
    • A. India
    • B. North Korea
    • C. South Africa
    • D. Belarus

    Learn more: U.S. Wants Peaceful Solution for North Korean Nuclear Issue

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