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…to change to adapt to a nuclear powered world and focus their attention on domestic concerns. The Cuban Missile Crisis, domestic concerns of both countries and the entry of China, as a powerful player in international politics, were among the main reasons why…

…than chemical weapons. It has been called the 'splitting of the atom' of the new century. Like the time before the nuclear bomb, engineers, even though a treaty against it has been signed by the major powers, are working quietly and hard to be the first ones…

…was the great military location and also a small secluded place to test nuclear weapons. So pretty much from the late 1940's to the present a lot of the history has been the nuclear testing on the island.         The first test came in 1946. The U.S. had…

…of troops were ordered to be at San Francisco for rendezvous with a fleet to Northeastern Asia. Koslov had launched a nuclear weapon from Moscow on Dublin, Ireland, in an attempt to eliminate the IRA's presence in the current state of war. It succeeded…

…we want war if we could have done it years before?" says Brian Endless. What threat does Hussein pose to the US? He does not have nuclear weapons, although he does know how to make one. He has everything, except…

…, the other countries immediately feel insecure and they also start to do the same. This happened in the Cold War between Russia and the U.S.A. It is true that there was no Third World War because of the immense power the nuclear-weapons had but is it really peace…

…The world will never be the same after the events of October of 1962, now known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. The United States learned that the Soviet Union was building nuclear missile bases in Cuba. Soviet Chairman Nikita Khrushchev wanted to shift…

…of the controversial topics was that of nuclear weapons. Britain and France were concerned that the Soviet Union may use nuclear weapons against them. They also were doubtful that the United States would use their nuclear weapons against Russian to protect Britain. So…

…A global war or an intercontinental nuclear exchange is highly unlikely in the current world political climate. But as long as considerable nuclear weapons and long range delivery systems exist in other countries and a developing threat resides…

…heavily fought over in the U.S.S.R. in 1951. He wrote a book called No More War! in 1958. Also in 1958, he brought a petition to the United Nations signed by 11,021 scientists from all over the world urging an end to nuclear weapons tests. Pauling also…