New technologies and also techniques for spying became a top concern for national security. ... By the end of the 1950s the U.S.S.R. was working toward combining these two new technologies into the building of an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM). ... This was not just a scientific achievement but also a strategic one giving way to the new threat of the soviets being able to put a nuclear missile into orbit that could threaten any U.S. city that they wanted to target. ...

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At sixteen he attempted to enroll at the Federal Institute of Technology but failed the entrance exam. ... Though he was still unknown to the scientific world, he began to attract a large circle of friends and admirers. ... In 1912 he chose to accept a job placing him in high authority at the Federal Institute of Technology, where he had originally studied. ... He also visited the battle sites of the war, and urged that Europe renew scientific and cultural links. ... He also continued his scientific research until the day he died. ...

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New technologies were sprouting up all over the world that would change the lives of every family in the modern world. ... All of these contributed to the changing economy and went hand in hand with the new technologies coming out. Technology changed along with the economy and helped influence daily life. ... This technology piled up on the other changes in England, especially the largest change the politics of the 20th century. ... With all this religious and scientific conflict, military conflict seems almost simple. ...

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However, when it comes to advantages, South Korea excels in producing technology. ... South Korea has advancement in science and technology, for example their world's fastest Internet connection speed, which would make sense as to why South Korea has high technology exports. Products such as these include aerospace, computers, scientific instruments, electrical machinery and more ("South Korea Export, Import and Trade"). This advancement of science and technology is a comparative advantage that South Korea has over the United States, since they advance in technology more than we...

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While more nations have the technology to make nuclear warheads, many do not due to political pressure. ... For example, South Africa developed the technology to produce nuclear missiles, and then dismantled them. (1) In doing so it became the first nation to voluntarily giving up its nuclear missiles. ... A new Stanford database has been formed that lists illicitly obtained weapons-grade nuclear material as well as scientific or medical material that may have been lost, misplaced or thrown away. (5,7) Our ability to track material has aided the world in catching many smugglers. ... To supp...

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The word "multipolar" in international relation is scientifically defined as "a distribution of power in which there are a number of poles, or great powers, in the international system" . ... Waltz argues that "despite the condition of anarchy, states will stop well short of hegemony if geography or technology or social organization favors the defense." ... America's constant grow in its strength relied largely on new technologies, especially the internet and telecommunications that produced a massive shift in the power of capital to generate unprecedented economic growth, mass consumptio...

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The effects of Industrialization on Europe's society, the development of scientific theories, such as Darwin's evolution theory', and the tension between the European nations that was to eventually escalate into World War One, called into question the existence of God and the rationality of Mankind. ... Another modernist quality in Owen's poem is his inclusion of the theme of technology, or rather his inference that Mankind seems unable to control modern machinery. ... The flares, the flickering gunnery and the flight of allude to birds or perhaps fireflies in the sky abo...

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The Cold War Tensions with the United States and Russia have been around for quite some time. Russia and the United States were allies during World War II, but soon after they became enemies. After W.W.II, even though the Soviet Union had a strong military, it was encircled by hostile capitalist governments and felt that if communism was to remain strong, it needed to form an alliance with other communist countries. Also after the war, Germany was divided right through the middle of Berlin, Germany. West Germany was democratic and East Germany was communist. ...

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