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CO U RS E I N S T R U CTO R : DR . M I N - J U N G KWA K
M I N - J U N G . KWA K @ S M U.CA
Kashmir
◦ Disputed province straddling border of India, Pakistan, and China
◦ ¾ Muslim population
◦ Previously governed by Hindu before 1947
◦ Contains the upper portion of the Indus River and many of its tributaries
Nationalism and Nuclear Weapons
Comprehensive test ban treaty
◦ Prohibition of all nuclear testing
◦ NPT (Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty)
◦ Signed by 149 nations and went into effect in 1996
◦ Nuclear possessing countries: the US, Russia, China, the UK,
and France (Israel & North Korea)