Wednesday, May 2, 2012

1970

Nuclear non-proliferation Treaty
  • who: U.S., Russia, U.K., France, and china.
  • deffinition: to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.
based off of the three pillar system:
  • non-Proliferation
  • Disarmament
  • The Right to Peacfully use Nuclear Technology.

  • 190 parties have joined the treaty
  •  four non-parties have been suspected of haveing nuclear technonlogy.
  • India, pakistan, and North Korea have openly declared haveing Nuclear Technology
  • treaty origionally had a duration of 25 years. 
  • 1995 May 11, the parties extended the treaty indeffinently. 
INDO-PAKISTANI WAR OF 1971
  • who: military conflict between India and Pakistan
  • condidered one of the shortest wars in history.
  • Indian and pakistani forces clashed on the eastern and western fronts.
  • came to an end when pakistani armed forces sighned the instrament of surrender.
  • 90,000 to 93,000 pakistani armed forces were taken prisoner of war by Indian army.
  • 2000,000 to 300,000 civilians were killed in bangladesh. 
  • up to four hundered thousand women were raped by Pakistani armed forces. 
  • as a result of the conflict 8 to 10 million people fled the country at the time to seek refuge in neighboring India.

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