1. Answer the following questions:

1. What is highly unlikely in NATO’s security environment?

2. What non-military challenges does NATO face today?

3. What do you think is meant by “powerful nuclear forces outside NATO” that constitutes a significant factor which the Alliance has to take into account?

4. What is understood by the proliferation challenge?

1. Comment on the following statements:

1. Today the biggest threat to NATO is a large-scale conventional aggression against the Alliance.

2. The existence of powerful nuclear forces outside the Alliance should be taken into consideration if security and stability are to be maintained.

3. The proliferation of NBC weapons and their means of delivery remains a matter of serious concern.

4. Non-military challenges pose the most serious threat to NATO today.

Word Study

1. Translate the following words and word combinations from English into Ukrainian:

Emerge; face serious economic, political and social difficulties; ethnic and religious rivalries; the dissolution of states; armed conflicts; spill over into…; proliferation of NBC weapons; NBC weapons and delivery means; illicit trade; adversaries; cruise missiles; advanced weaponry; disrupt; sabotage; pose problems.

2. Translate the following words and word combinations from Ukrainian into English:

Широкомасштабна агресія із застосуванням звичайного озброєння; етнічні та релігійні зіткнення; порушення прав людини; територіальні суперечки, а озброєні конфлікти; представляти військову загрозу; розповсюдження зброї масового ураження; протизаконна торгівля, високоефективні наступальні і оборонні системи повітряного, наземного і морського базування; сучасне наступальне і оборонне озброєння; крилаті ракети; організована злочинність; порушувати.

3. Translate the following sentences from the text from English into Ukrainian:

1. The security of the Alliance remains subject to a wide variety of military and non-military risks which are multi-directional and often difficult to predict.

2. Ethnic and religious rivalries, territorial disputes, inadequate and failed efforts at reform, the abuse of human rights, and the dissolution of states can lead to local and even regional instability.

3. Commodities and technology that could be used to build these weapons of mass destruction and their delivery means are becoming more common, while detection and prevention of illicit trade in these materials and know-how continues to be difficult.

4. The global spread of technology that can be of use in the production of weapons may result in the greater availability of sophisticated military capabilities, permitting adversaries to acquire highly capable offensive and defensive air, land and sea-borne systems, cruise missiles, and other advanced weaponry.

5. Alliance’s security interests can also be affected by other risks of a wider nature, including acts of terrorism, sabotage and organized crime, and by the disruption of the flow of vital resources.