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…the missile gap. Even though the Soviet Union promised they would not attempt to place nuclear weapons in Cuba, they put them there anyway in hopes that the U.S. would not find out until it was too late to do anything about it. The ploy almost worked…

…. The question is why? Anthrax levels the playing field for countries and organizations that have neither the money, manpower nor technology to support a nuclear program or similar large-scale operation. With biological weapons you have a device capable or doing…

…as they were thinking of using nuclear weapons against each other. If the Cold War had become a reality then hundreds of thousands of lives would have been lost.…

…The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. The United States armed forces were at their highest state of readiness ever and Soviet field commanders in Cuba were prepared to use battlefield nuclear weapons to defend…

…their enemy countries in 1945. When that happened all research work was stopped and the German threat was non-existent. This was not when the United States started their own nuclear weapon, they had started four years ago in 1941. There were three main purposes…

…thoughts are that countries will use germ, chemical and nuclear weapons. If nuclear weapons are used, it will be the end of the world. Both sides will blow each other up including the planet. To survive, we might have to go into outer space and sustain a colony…

…The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. The United States armed forces were at their highest state of readiness ever and Soviet field commanders in Cuba were prepared to use battlefield nuclear weapons to defend…

…in this century due to chemistry. For instance nuclear energy can give the world an endless supply of energy. At the same time nuclear weapons are a negative side development. The pollution to the environment from nuclear radiation would also cause many concerns…

…disturbing questions about American policy toward North Korea and stability on the Korean peninsula are raised. State Department spokesmen said firing a missile over Japan and into the Pacific did not violate a 1994 agreement freezing North Korea's nuclear…

…there were some mostly bad things that came from the cold war: the proliferation of nuclear weapons, vast stockpiles of nuclear armaments on both sides, and the nuclear waste that was the by-product of the production of these weapons, collapse of economies…