In Korea if it wasn't for the United Nations the USA probably would of resorted to using weapons of mass destruction. ... The UN provides a place where nations can talk over problems before going to war and making deadly mistakes. ... United States of America soon starts loosing the war, since the combined forces of the UN couldn't fight North Korea and China, so the USA turns to nuclear weapons. ...

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The Second World War brought had an aftermath of another war, the Cold War, which was basically the U.S vs the Soviet Union, both were highly equipped with weapons of mass destruction and were opposites, this was cause enough to bring fears of destruction or even annihilation, change in economics and social changes to the U.S and the free world. ... They built weapons of mass destruction and used them as deterrents for one another. ... This false sense of security and fear is seen everywhere at this time, people were building bomb shelters, as portrayed in Life Magazine (May 1955 Edition) It ...

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This new weapon had a range of about 4000 miles, which gave it the true title of being an intercontinental rocket. ... The threat of the deadly new ICBM wasn't the American public's major concern though. ...

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Another reason on why I believe the Vietnam war and the policies that followed were not justified up to its completion in addition to the fact it was based on lies is that there were many human rights were violated As many innocent civilians lives were brutally taken by the hands of U.S soldiers and by the use of extremely powerful chemical weapons that were used in Vietnam against international law such as the Geneva contract. ... Napalm was even weaponized into flamethrowers and air bombs making them much more powerful and gruesome. Now imagine innocent civilians including women and ch...

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(McNamara "The Tragedy and lessons of Vietnam" Preface) Many argue now that the Vietnam War was a deadly mistake, and it is my opinion as well. ... By 1950's South-East Asia became place where interest of superpowers, such as United States, China and USSR, as well as fading colonial empires like France and United Kingdom, created deadly tensions. ... North Vietnamese fought using soviet build weapons, tanks and warplanes. ...

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Each side stockpiles weapons and forces, which it hopes to never use but are a good asset in the war of words and threats. ... In August 1945, America dropped the world's first nuclear weapon on Hiroshima in Japan. The bomb had catastrophic effects on anything in its path and showed the world the deadly and devastating effects this weapon could have. ...

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