{"id":2321,"date":"2024-05-01T17:37:33","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T12:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=2321"},"modified":"2024-05-01T17:37:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T12:07:33","slug":"q-consider-the-following-statements-129","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-consider-the-following-statements-129","title":{"rendered":"Q. Consider the following statements:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. The Nuclear Security Summits are periodically held under the aegis of the&nbsp;<strong>United Nations.<\/strong><br>2. The International Panel on Fissile Materials is an&nbsp;<strong>organ of&nbsp;<\/strong>International Atomic Energy Agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which of the statements given above is\/are correct?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"mcq wp-block-list\">\n<li>1 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Both 1 and 2<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Neither 1 nor 2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Answer: d)&nbsp;Neither 1 nor 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"nuclear-security-summit-nss\">Nuclear Security Summit (NSS):<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) is an initiative that was announced<strong>\u00a0by the United States in 2009<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is a global submit\u00a0<strong>to check nuclear terrorism all over the world.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The United States\u2019 president<strong>\u00a0Barack Obama<\/strong>\u00a0has coined this concept of Nuclear Security Summit.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The first Nuclear Security Summit was held\u00a0<strong>in 2010 at Washington DC.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Aim of Nuclear Security Summit<\/strong>:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>To secure fissile materials from being misused.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Minimization of the use of highly Enriched Uranium (HEU.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Proposal and implementation of improved and transparent national regulations to aid security at nuclear facilities.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Improvement in the membership of the\u00a0International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reduce and final end illicit trafficking in nuclear and other radioactive materials.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"international-panel-on-fissile-materials\"><strong>International Panel on Fissile Materials<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It was established in\u00a0<strong>January 2006.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is a group of independent nuclear experts from<strong>\u00a017 countries:<\/strong>\u00a0Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Iran, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Pakistan, South Korea, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It aims to advance international initiatives to\u00a0<strong>\u201csecure and to sharply reduce all stocks of highly enriched uranium and separated plutonium, the key materials in nuclear weapons, and to limit any further production<\/strong>\u201d.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The International Panel on Fissile Materials is a\u00a0<strong>non-governmental organisation comprised of experts in arms control and non-proliferation.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It includes experts from\u00a0<strong>both nuclear and non-nuclear weapon states.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Panel produces an annual\u00a0<strong>Global Fissile Material Report<\/strong>\u00a0which summarizes new information on fissile material stocks and production worldwide, as well as periodic research reports.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. The Nuclear Security Summits are periodically held under the aegis of the&nbsp;United Nations.2. The International Panel on Fissile Materials is an&nbsp;organ of&nbsp;International Atomic Energy Agency. Which of the statements given above is\/are correct? Answer: d)&nbsp;Neither 1 nor 2 Nuclear Security Summit (NSS): International Panel on Fissile Materials<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[47],"years":[56],"class_list":["post-2321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc","category-prelims","tag-international-relations","years-56"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"},{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"}],"post_tag":[{"value":47,"label":"International Relations"}],"years":[{"value":56,"label":"2017"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0},{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":47,"name":"International Relations","slug":"international-relations","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":47,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":79,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2321"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=2321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}