Apr. 30th - May 4th

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Monday
• Work time for presentation
Tuesday
• Talking about Forum posts
• Cold war Review
• Nikita Khrushchev 1953-1964
o Peaceful Co-existence – after 1953
o De-Stalinization – after 1953
• Détente – 1970’s
• Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power in USSR 1985
• Perestroika and Glasnost 1985
o Perestroika-Reconstruction of the Soviet economy and political system
 More democracy
 Free elections
o Glasnost-More openness of the Soviet government and for its people
 Free speech and press
• USSR’s first Atomic Test 1949
o Picture of their tests
• Nuclear powers of the world
o United States 1945
o Russia 1949
o United Kingdom 1952
o France 1960
o China 1964
o India 1974
o Pakistan 1998
o North Korea 2006
o Israel
o Iran – developing
• The North Korea and Iran Nuclear Problem
o On April 21st, 2018, Kim Jong Un announced that North Korea will no longer test nuclear weapons
o He and Trump will be meeting soon
o The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)
 Iran confirms that it won’t develop or acquire nuclear weapons
o In exchange, the country will get relieved from economic sanctions and permission to continue its atomic program for peaceful purposes
• President Trump hates the deal and wants to pull out
• video
Wednesday
• JFK signing partial nuclear test ban treaty 1963
• Nuclear power treaties/Organizations
• Nuclear Test Ban Treaty 1963
• Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty 1968
o “Prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology”
o “Promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy”
o “Further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament”
• Maps of the countries that signed the Treaty
• Anti-Ballistic missile -1972 US/USSR
o Limited weapons that would seek out and destroy nuclear weapons once launched
o In the 1980’s, President Ronald Reagan announces the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
o US withdraws in 2002 under George W. Bush
 Withdrew due to missile defense system
o Program is designed to counter any nuclear missile attack on the US or Allies
o Map
• Video
• Salt | Treaty US/USSR 1972
o SALT | froze the number of strategic ballistic missile launchers at existing k=levels
o Limited new submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM)
 Richard Nixon
 L.L. Brezhnev
• Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty 1996
o Signed by President Bill Clinton
o Not ratified by the Senate
• United Nations 1945 -Present
o Pretty much every country is a member
• International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) 1957
• INF Treaty 1987
o Eliminated nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with intermediate ranges
o USSR and US
• The START treaty
o Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
o Start || (1991)
o Largest and most complex arms control treaty in history
o Resulted in the removal of about 80 percent of all strategic …
• Start | 1991
• SORT 2003
o Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty
o Between US and Russia
o Stockpile of both deployed and reserve nuclear weapons ws to be cut in half by 2012
o The goal was achieved in 2007 for the US
• New Start 2011
o Signed by President Obama and former Russian President Medvedev
o The number pf strategic nuclear missile launchers will be reduced by half
o A new inspection and verification system will be established
o Lasts until 2021
Thursday
• Workday for end of the year presentations
Friday
• I wasn’t in school