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Nuclear Warfare
INTA 2040 - Exam 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Highly Enriched Uranium | uranium has low natural radioactivity; long half-life; finite supply--not equally distributed; <1% is fissile isotopes |
| Nuclear Weapons and Deterrence | security depends on nuclear weapons for deterrence; hard power, soft power |
| Hard Power | weapons (defensive) and military (deterrence) force, economics (esp. economic sanctions) |
| Soft Power | a nation-state is able to influence behavior of other states through means other than military (i.e. capitalism, science and technology) |
| Smart Power | H. Clinton's renaming of "soft power" |
| Deterrence | |
| MAD | mutually assured destruction; refers to Cold War; deterrence strategy; dependent on second-strike capability (retaliation) |
| "Return Address" Problem |