Question
Paul Chaudet’s (“shaw-day”) political career in this country ended after his government ballooned its budget purchasing a hundred Mirage III jets to carry nuclear weapons. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this country that explored the possibility of making nuclear weapons with the Study Commission on Nuclear Energy. Voters in this country overwhelmingly rejected a nuclear weapons ban in an April 1962 referendum.
ANSWER: Switzerland [or Swiss Confederation]
[10m] Switzerland continued its nuclear program after signing this treaty in 1969. North Korea withdrew from this treaty in 2003 after which it flouted its terms and carried out a nuclear test in 2006.
ANSWER: Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty [or Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons; or NPT]
[10e] Switzerland was partially motivated to make a nuclear weapon by its refusal to join this alliance led by the nuclear-armed U.S. The Soviet-led Warsaw Pact was formed to counter this alliance of capitalist democracies.
ANSWER: NATO [or North Atlantic Treaty Organization]
<Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford, European History>
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