Which of the following statements does not reflect the concerns of U.S. policy makers over nuclear weapons proliferation?
a. The existing nuclear regime, organized around the 1968 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), excludes nonnuclear powers from negotiating.
b. Nuclear weapons aggravate internal and regional power balances while diverting scarce economic resources from productive uses.
c. A more militarized world poses danger to the United States, a primary target of resentment among many foreign governments and terrorist groups.
d. Nuclear proliferation is not confined to states, and the threat posed by preventing rogue states and terrorist groups from gaining access to such weapons is a central goal of policy makers.
a. The existing nuclear regime, organized around the 1968 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), excludes nonnuclear powers from negotiating.
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a. Block grants b. General revenue sharing c. Categorical grants d. Tax expenditures
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a. Dr. Haynes made up the results to survive in a publish-or-perish academic setting. b. The results of biomedical experiments are often random, so this is not unusual. c. Dr. Swensson made mistakes analyzing the data. d. Dr. Swensson did not use the exact same procedure as Dr. Haynes.
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a. the colonial era b. the Revolutionary War c. pre–Civil War d. Reconstruction
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A. representative concentration pathways B. stabilization wedges C. clean development mechanisms D. carbon mitigation initiatives