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Which of the following is one reason why Iran was able to keep its nuclear weapons program hidden for so long?

A) Some of Iran's nuclear facilities were housed deep below the ground
B) Safeguard agreements negotiated with the IAEA had only authorized its inspectors to monitor declared nuclear facilities
C) The IAEA had failed to press Iran for critical data concerning its nuclear program
D) The United States was preoccupied with North Korea and ignored what was transpiring in Iran

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Which of the following countries enjoys the greatest influence over North Korea?

A) South Korea
B) China
C) The United States
D) Russia

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When did the U.S. monopoly of nuclear weapons come to end?

Which of the following countries is identified as a "non-nuclear weapon states" under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty?

What country holds North Korea responsible for the kidnapping of its citizens?

America's policy of ___________ provided security guarantees to allies and states that might otherwise have sought to acquire a nuclear capability

Which of the following was the controversial UN Security Council resolution that the U.S. argued authorized its invasion of Iraq in 2003 but that Russia, China, and Several close U.S. allies claimed did not provide such an authorization?

Which of the following countires did not sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty?

What is the P5+1?

Which of the following is the principal means for interdicting illegal shipments of nuclear-related materials?

Of the five original nuclear weapons states, which is the only one that has not indicated it has ceased producing fissile material for nuclear weapons?

The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty emphasized the right of all states to (develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes) as long as they accepted international safeguards over their nuclear materials that were supervised by ________________.

A cyber-weapon called ______ was originally believed to have destroyed a fifth of Iran's nuclear centrifuges and delayed its progress toward building nuclear weapons by several years.

Washington had signed ____________ outlawing the use of chemical weapons in 1925, but did not ratify it until 1974

In which of the following wars have nuclear weapons been used?

What is Iran's closest ally in the Middle East?

Who was Abdul Oadeer Khan?

American intelligence first detected that _________ was developing nuclear weapons in the 1980s, and since then the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations have been preoccupied with finding a mix of sanctions and rewards to curb that country's nuclear ambitions.

President Obama reaffirmed that force would be used after other options were exhausted, noting that if _____________ "ignore their international obligations, we will pursue multiple means to increase their isolation and bring them into compliance with international nonproliferation norms."

Which of the following countries vigorously opposes a deal to limit advances in Iranian nuclear technology by 10 to 15 years?