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…develop nuclear weapons or weapons of mass destruction, and that "naked aggression (against Kuwait) will not stand." Various peace proposals were floated, but none were agreed to. The United States insisted that the only acceptable terms for peace were Iraq's…

…measures that would curtail global warming and enforce a ban on biological weapons, and by signaling its intention to withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (see Arms Control, International) in order to build a large-scale missile-defense system. While…

…with air raids on Cuba. Two days later, 1,500 U.S. trained Cuban exiles landed on Cuba with weapons supplied by the United States. At the time, the U.S. government was convinced that the Cuban people would join the invading forces once they land…

…because of these images. The Cold War was a giant standoff between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. These two nations were building nuclear weapons as a threat to the other and eventually came to terms of peace. Sputnik I, however, did not come at a beneficial time…

…to further heighten the unhappiness as it aimed to make the Soviets an adversary rather than a valuable partner in the world stage, laying the frameworks for the outbreak of the Cold War. The development and testing of the atomic bomb and the use of US nuclear…

…without fear of intervention by the U.S. because American leaders "care more about Los Angeles than they do about Taiwan," a statement that he characterizes as an indirect threat by China to use nuclear weapons against the U.S. In recent months. January 24…

…weapon, invented in 1973, and used on us ever since by OPEC. It drains the world economy, it finances terrorism, armament acquisition, and nuclear bomb development, and it is a continuing blackmail of western diplomacy under threat of restoring the panic…

…to the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the federative organization that succeeded the Soviet Union. The Bush Administration soon reached an important agreement with the CIS about the dismantling of former-Soviet nuclear arms and nuclear weapons production…

…. This is another point Golding is trying to make no-one will now listen to democracy and because of this nuclear weapons have to be used and this is summing up the political events at the time when this novel was written during the race to get as many weapons…

…the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in this area. Ballistic missiles launched from the Middle East and the threat of possible nuclear missiles pose a new dilemma to the World. Indeed, if there is better co-ordination between the United States…