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…was threatening North America with nuclear weapons and the U.S.A. and Canada were trying to figure out ways to defend themselves. Both Canada and the U.S.A. discovered ways to protect the continent. Canada started to do tests on a state-of-the-art super sonic airplane…

…is allowed to see. Not to mention the false realism about the nuclear arms race with the former Soviet Union; the U.S. dreamed up that they had more weapons than we did only to justify paying for nulcear defenses.…

…of the nuclear bomb. The scientists became so obsessed with solving the problem at hand, that they ignored the fact they were making a weapon of mass destruction. Before the initial test of the nuclear bomb, the scientist were only 90% sure that the chain reaction…

…, and that war between states continued despite attempts to curb it. This culminated eventually in the 'Cold war', the ultimate State versus state stand off, the vast military resources and the human consequence nuclear weapons made the nations impotent by virtue…

…Angeles with a nuclear weapon. These actions hardly show a maturity to be on the world’s stage. Despite my misgivings about this "engagement" policy it has shown some progress in reforming China. China has begun to close down its massive and inefficient…

…to involve the fate of the rest of the world. And little Newt, having a childs un-blinded perception, doesnÕt understand the game. He doesnÕt see a cat or a cradle. Like all the games Dr. Hoenikker plays, including the ones with nuclear weapons, this one…

…in 1962. Cuban leaders were afraid that the US would attack so they asked the USSR for more military aid. They responded by sending nuclear missiles and the materials necessary to build launch sites. When the US found out about the missiles, President Kennedy…

…weapons and would have an advantage over the soviets if a war ever broke out between the two nuclear powers. The Soviet Union pictured itself as a defender of peace and accused the United States of planning a third world war. (14) In the fall of 1946, communist…

…shows that the scientists felt that the atomic bomb would bring an end to the war now but surely cause more damage in the long run.However, not all scientists on the panal belived the nuclear weapons were bad. Some scientists thought that if this technology…

…and farmers. Nuclear processing plants that produced plutonium for atomic bombs also produced radioactive waste with a half-life of two thousand years. Refuse from nuclear weapons facilities at Hanford, Washington, and at Colorado's Rocky Flats arsenal polluted…