Weapons Trafficking 5/10 Flashcards
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Arms Trafficking
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- aka gunrunning is the illegal trafficking or smuggling of contraband weapons or ammunition
- legal trade depends on local and national laws
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Small Arms (& examples)
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- weapons designed for personal use
- ex. revolvers and self loading pistols, rifles and carbines, sub machine guns, assault rifles and light machine guns
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Light Weapons (& examples)
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- heavy machine gun
- hand-held underbarrell & mounted grenade launchers
- portable anti-aircraft guns, recoiless rifles, portable launchers of anti- aircraft missle systems (MANPADS)
- man portable air defense systems
- meant to be used by several ppl
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MANPADS
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- portable anti-aircraft guns, recoiless rifles, portable launchers of anti- aircraft missle systems
- surface - to - air missiles
- infrared seeking
- tens of thousands missing worldwide
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Straw Purchasing
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when a person buys something on behalf of someone else when the other party can’t make the purchase themselves
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Proliferation
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- rapid increase in #´s
- efforts to curb proliferation are failing
- we don´t understand the complex, innovative networks we are trying to disrupt
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Nuclear Weapon
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- an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions; either fission or fusion
- release vast quantities of energy from matter
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Fission
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the action of dividing or splitting something in two or more parts
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Thermonuclear Weapon
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- uses the energy from a primary nuclear fission reaction to compress and ignite a secondary nuclear fission reaction
- referred to as a hydrogen bomb or H-bomb bc it employs hydrogen fusion
- fission is required to cause fusion
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Fusion
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the process or result of joining two or more things together to form a single entity
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Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)
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- international treaty that went into effect in 1970
- objective > to prevent the illegal spread of nuclear weapons and promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy
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Viktor Bout
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- polyglot
- UN named him as an associate of former liberian president charles taylor
- supported efforts to destabilize sierra leone and gain illicit access to diamonds
- nickname was ¨Sanctions Buster¨ due to implication in the violation of the UN arms embargos
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IAEA
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- International Atomic Energy Agency
- inspections to verify compliance
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Nuclear Weapons States
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China
France
Russia
The United Kingdom
The United States
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Nations NOT part of NPT
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- North Korea
- India
- Israel
- Pakistan
