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ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. World problems
  3. Naval arms race

Naval arms race

Unpresentable
  • Maritime nuclear weapons systems
  • Nuclear arms at sea

Incidence

According to a 1990 UN report, almost one fourth of the world's nuclear weapons (a total of about 15,000) are earmarked for deployment at sea.

Broader

Competitive acquisition of arms
Excellent

Aggravates

Marine accidents
Presentable
Naval warfare
Unpresentable
Marine disposal of obsolete weapons
Unpresentable
Obstacles to unilateral nuclear disarmament
Yet to rate

Strategy

Competing on arms
Yet to rate

Reference

United Nations: The Naval Arms Race
Fieldhouse, Richard and Taoka, Shunji: Superpowers at Sea: an assessment of the naval arms race
Anthony, Ian: The Naval Arms Trade
Fieldhouse, Richard: Security at Sea: naval forces and arms control

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #9: Industry, Innovation and InfrastructureSustainable Development Goal #14: Life Below Water

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(D) Detailed problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
Content quality
Unpresentable
 Unpresentable
Language
English
1A4N
D8412
DOCID
11484120
D7NID
151892
Editing link
Official link
https://encyclopedia.uia.org/problem/naval-arms-race
Last update
Oct 4, 2020