CONTENT STATEMENT
Proliferation of nuclear weapons has created a challenge to world peace.
CONTENT ELABORATION
The end of the Cold War posed new challenges with the proliferation of nuclear weapons and their threat to world peace on a global scale.
These new challenges include:
- the global danger of competing and emerging nuclear arsenals;
- unstable former Soviet republics housing weapons of mass destruction; and
- the possibility of access to nuclear weapons by terrorists and state supported terrorism.
EXPECTATIONS FOR LEARNING
Describe how proliferation of nuclear weapons since the end of the Cold War has created a challenge to world peace.