1. How many countries attended the National Security Summit at the Hague organized by the U.S.? (What is the Hague?)
b) How many of those governments agreed to adopt guidelines to improve nuclear security?

2. a) Which countries did not sign the agreement?
b) List the countries which are known to have nuclear weapons.

3. a) Define viability.
b) What recent event has raised questions about the viability of the Nuclear Security agreement?

4. Why did the White House on Tuesday issue a joint statement with Ukraine saying the two countries will uphold their parts of a 1994 agreement with Russia under which Ukraine's government gave up its nuclear weapons in exchange for a guarantee of Ukraine's territorial integrity?

5. What have the countries that signed the agreement agreed to do?

6. President Obama supports a policy of nuclear disarmament. Nuclear disarmament refers to both the act of reducing or eliminating nuclear weapons and to the end state of a nuclear-free world, in which nuclear weapons are completely eliminated. In a commentary opposing nonproliferation, Thomas Sowell writes:
“But the only country we can disarm is our own. The only countries we might be able to persuade to disarm are countries that intend no harm in the first place. Those that do intend harm would be delighted to have all their victims disarmed.”
a) With which position do you agree? Explain your answer.
b) Do you think this assertion applies to the Nuclear Security Summit agreement…or do you think the Summit agreement is a good step in the right direction to making the world safe from nuclear weapons? Explain your answer.