In Russia's attempt to reduce their nuclear weapons, this will definitely make Russia weaker. ... If Russia sells these weapons to third world countries, this could be dangerous to us due to the fact that the origin of our terrorists is the third world countries. ... We should shift some of the budget to the intelligence portion of the government though. ... The military intelligence and intelligence of all of our defenses, governmental or not, need increased attention. ... Our government needs to get into what's is going on with immigration and potential enemies on our soil rea...

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Tensions between Russia and the West have been high throughout history. ... Russia lost and tensions grew between the two. ... The Bolsheviks (later communists), led by Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the existing Russian government. ... These communist countries became satellites of Russia, nothing more than provinces of Russia. ... To Westerners, this Russian advance exceeded their worst fears. ...

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They obtained it from Russia years ago. ... If the government decides to install a system on both Airforce one and Marine One, that is $6 million of taxpayer money. ... Russia and China the two other big superpowers will go on alert because the U.S is spending Billions to protect itself from tiny nations that can easily be defeated, nations whose government has no desire to attack the U.S. ... What is going to happen in Afghanistan when the U.S "helps" to set up a temporary government? ... The U.S did help to set up the new Israeli government and now it is on thin ice. ...

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The threat of Russian progression in Europe and in Asia was enough to worry the top officials in the United States and British governments. ... The dropping of the bomb was not entirely used to stop the Russian progression. ... The American government also wanted revenge for the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. ... The Russian territorial growth definitely played a factor in the dropping the bomb. ... The Americans did not want the Russians to get involved in the war against Japan. ...

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Russia, under Lenin's rule called for a world revolution and brought the United States into it. ... Also the Russian government was seeking revenge on the United States because the United States did not enter the war effort soon enough and that caused for more Russian casualties. ... The west decided to create a separate government in their zones. ... Russia was trying to spread communism, abolish democracies, and spread poverty. ... The Russians directly blamed the United States for their 30 million casualties in WWII. ...

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The real amount of missing weapons grade material could be up to 10 times higher than estimated. (7) Comparatively few smuggling incidents are reported, and many are not known about until the traffickers are caught, and the material traced back to its source. (8) In some cases the investigations have led to the mafia and high positions in the Russian, and other governments. (6) The collapse of the Soviet Union has made smuggling radioactive materials from Russia and its former territories frightingly easy. ... The Russian parliament has yet to ratify. ... (4) In addition, the START treatie...

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Nye refers to the following countries as the main contenders to the heavy weight belt of world dominance: China, Japan, Russia, India and Europe as the European Union. ... The main downfall of China is the communist ideology of their government. ... Russia, throughout the past couple decades, until its fall, had been considered the United States" number one competitor. ... Russia has been on a downward spiral since the fall of communism and will take a great deal of time to overcome. ... Does the media create a skepticism of government? ...

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During the final battles of W.W.II, the Russian economy was at the bottom of the bucket. ... With Russia in a deep depression, it needed a quick fix, so that they could get back on their feet again. ... The United States, having a capitalized system, resented the communist government. ... It was discovered that the Russians had nuclear technologies as well. ... There were required inspections of Russian plants by Americans. ...

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Kennedy's under lying sentiments in his speech on Russia's Gibson II nuclear stance around the world in the first week in October 1962 could have been the catalyst to have changed the out come of the Cuban missile crisis, the above quote was what set Russia to end the diplomatic stale mate and launch against the united sates and we to retaliate in the same. ... With in a short time most of the major cities in the United States Are little more than Mushroom clouds in the mourning sky and the entire Russian mainland has been obliterated. ... Without power, communication and the abil...

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Because Russia wanted to protect its Serbs, they backed Serbia against Austria. Backing Austria was Germany, who was also opponents with France who had joined sides with Russia. ... Germany, like in the previous war, was defeated when Hitler's much praised Blitzkrieg failed because of the harsh Russian winters. ... The nuclear bomb was first utilized by the U.S. to defeat Japan, and over the course of the next fifty year the U.S. and Russia had an arms race over nuclear weapons known as the Cold War. ... What also arose from the end of the wars was democracy, which now is the type of...

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Because Russia wanted to protect its Serbs, they backed Serbia against Austria. Backing Austria was Germany, who was also opponents with France who had joined sides with Russia. ... Germany, like in the previous war, was defeated when Hitler's much praised Blitzkrieg failed because of the harsh Russian winters. ... The nuclear bomb was first utilized by the U.S. to defeat Japan, and over the course of the next fifty year the U.S. and Russia had an arms race over nuclear weapons known as the Cold War. ... What also arose from the end of the wars was democracy, which now is the type of...

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The movie is a comedic look at the government's efforts to call the planes back, and explores the problem of protecting against one person going crazy and turning technology against society. ... In the film, it's the Americans versus the Russians, and both races have to work together to stop a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union which could lead to counterattacks and the end of civilization. ... The funny thing is, the Russians appear to feel the same way about themselves. ... Strangelove, the Russian characters are stereotypical spoofs of their actual counterparts. ... They believ...

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It is inferable, then, that the United States government hoped to see the full effect of nuclear power by detonating the atomic bomb on this locality, as they could be sure that any damage was from the atomic bomb alone. ... It was viewed by the media, U.S. government officials and the military. ... The United States also could have threatened Japan with a Russian invasion. The Japanese were counting on Russia to help them make peace with the U.S. without unconditionally surrendering, which they believed would result in the loss of their Emperor. If the U.S. had have convinced Japan that Russi...

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This plan, supported by the US government got a lot of critisism from the russian states and even from western states. The russian prime minister Nikita Chruschtschow now could call JFK and the USA as aggressors and threaten with an intervention on Cuba. ... The U2 discovers russian nuclear missiles. 20.10. ... The russian prime minister did not get an answer of the USA - they ignored this deal. 28.10. ... -In the years 1963 - 1967 the USA first, then the SU, followed later on by France and Great Britain introduced a direct contact between the different governmental au...

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At the moment he's not quite where the US government would like to have him, but with the knowledge of such a high mortality rate of "his" people, the United States can no longer play this waiting game. ... Russia for example, would be 6 billion dollars richer if sanctions were gone. Baghdad is in debt to them from all the weapons they were sold from Russians. Along with Russia, China would also benefit from the absence of these sanctions. ...

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It would put Japan in check to bring a quick finish to the fighting, saving many lives, as well as prevent the Russians from joining the Pacific War. ... Seventy prominent scientists signed a petition to warn the government of trouble ahead. ... The two main goals of using atomic warfare were simple, to put a quick end to the war, saving up to a million U.S. lives, and finish off Japan before the Russians try to take over parts of the Pacific. ... Even though the Russian declared war on the Japan, like expected, they were not able to gain too much power in the Pacific. ... The bombings of Naga...

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Among the attendees at the Conference were allied leaders of Britain, Russia, China and the US (Churchill, Stalin, and Truman). ... On August 10, 1945, the Japanese government offered to accept the terms of the Postdam Declaration as long as it did not comprise any demand, which prejudices the prerogatives of His Majesty as a Sovereign Ruler. ... However, there is evidence of a power struggle with Russia and other political reasons for dropping the bombs. ... However, I am thankful that my generation and the future generations did not have to find out what could have happened between Americ...

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Truman called upon "the government of Japan to proclaim now the unconditional surrender of all Japanese armed forces. ... As Phil Boas writes in his article, during the 1947 Tokyo War Crimes trial, Marquis Kido Koichi, a chief adviser to Emperor Hirohito, stated, "the bomb and Russian invasion led to a surrender that likely saved 20 million of my innocent compatriots from war ravages." ... Kawabe Torashiro if Japan could have stopped fighting without the bomb or Russia invasion, he replied "Speaking very frankly, I think we would have been able to extend the war for a considerable time at cons...

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(Levine 2) A missile defense system does not defend against nonmissile means, it costs the government billions and there are many countermeasures, any of which would doom the system. ... The world lashed out on us when we recently pulled away from or ABM treaty with Russia that banned the making of such systems. ... The Russians and Chinese may come to the conclusion that the missile defense system is a stage in developing a bigger more powerful system that would be directed towards them. ... Second the governments of the current rogue states will likely change before a missile defense sys...

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After the Bomb Cody Carlson After the Bomb, written by Gloria Miklowitz, is a thrilling novel that takes place before, during, and after a bomb that supposedly was sent to the U.S west coast from Russia "by accident". ... Hospitals are flooded with injured and dying people and the government doesn't send help for a few days. ... When Philip arrives at the hospital with his mom the government and hospital had already started flying patients to burn centers, but his mom was too sick and burnt so the hospital didn't care for her. ...

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The U.S. was able to save many American lives, and also many Russian, British, and other Allied lives. ... The following were tow agreement of the governments :The two Governments mutually undertake to render each other assistance and support of all kinds in the present war against Hitlerite Germany, They further undertake that during this war they will neither negotiate nor conclude an armistice or treaty of peace except by mutual agreement. ...

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He withdrew his associations (he never joined) with the Communist Party when he learned of the suffering caused by Stalin on Russian scientists and toughened his liberal democratic philosophy. In 1939, Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard cautioned the U.S. government against the danger of Nazis making nuclear bombs. ... The United States government began to speculate about weapons that would make use of the discovery of fission, the splitting of the atom. ... In 1942, Oppenheimer commenced discussions with military security agents that concluded with the insinuation that...

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First, it makes any government less willing to oppose the prestigious state. ... The second important political function of prestige is a low cost foreign policy that brings compliance by foreign governments. ... The Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START 1), which limited Russian and US nuclear power reduced the military budgets. ...

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Today the United States government spends an estimated 35.1 billion dollars a year on nuclear weapons. ... (McNamara. 1992) Also the Russians were aware of an American military program called "operation mongoose." The objective of this operation was to over throw the Castro government. ...

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To the U.S. government (Truman) and military, successfully creating a nuclear bomb an important objective. ... The dropping of the bombs also lead to many world-impacting consequences, including the complete destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with economic/emotional devastation to Japan, and the kindling of the nuclear arms race between the USA and Russia, with further nuclear efforts by other countries. ...

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