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…Cuba as a dangerous situation and as a threat to National Security. Neither Krushchev or Kennedy wanted to go to a war as both men knew it would turn to a nuclear standoff. Both knew that the results of using just one of their many nuclear weapons would…

…to a technological race, in which, for all major dimensions except space in the late 1950s, the US was in the lead. Most significatly, it resulted in the escalation of nuclear weapons which dictated their respective foreign policies until the arms race ended for Russia…

…nuclear weapons. Of course, throughout the Cold War the many themes of the U.S.S.R. attacking the U.S are presented by various authors. All of these had the same result: nuclear holocaust. One exception is that Red Storm Rising is the first to present…

…nations [US and Soviet Union]" (The Arms Race 1), in this both the nations mass produced and invented new nuclear weapons in order to get ahead of the other nation. The US spent an estimated $ 260 billion for creating weapons during a five year period under…

…Good Guys, Bad Guys After the Cuban Missile Crisis both the United States and the Soviet Union saw the danger of the Cold War escalating into a shooting war. Both countries had and continued to stockpile weapons, specifically nuclear bombs. The two…

…Timor, UN had also sent many troops to keep peace. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (1968) and the Comprehensive Nuclear- Test-Ban Treaty (1996) are major milestones in the United Nations' campaign to reduce and ultimately eliminate weapons of mass…

…settlement plans for postwar Europe. To end the war with Japan, Truman authorized the dropping of nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and August 9, 1945. Japan surrendered on August 14. Between the years of 1947 and 48, two major civil-rights…

…, nuclear weapons, chemical warfare, and computerized mischief. I believe it is beca! use we are growing so much into technology that are status is getting worse. There is no stopping this transformation now, so I don’t think we’ll ever be able to reverse…

…, in the perception of the U.S. government—Acheson and President Harry S. Truman led the United States into the war, despite objections from many U.S. military commanders who thought Korea was the wrong place to make a stand against Communism. Nuclear Weapons Threat…

…to Bertrand Russell, world renowned peace advocate, in which he agreed that his name should go on a declaration urging all nations to give up nuclear weapons. One of his last acts was to argue, as he has done all his life, for world peace. Albert…