We will show that the Rosenberg's have committed one of the most reprehensible acts in history. ... Evidence shows that the Rosenberg's had a long history of activities in the communist party. ... The nature of Russian terrorism is now self-evident." ... The Rosenberg's conduct in putting into the hand of the Russians the atomic bomb years before our best scientists predicted! ... The betrayal of the Rosenberg's undoubtedly altered the course of history to the disadvantage of our country....

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Gar Alperovitz is the author of Hiroshima: History Reassess. ... " Alperovitz moves on to his next major argument that being the United States only carried through with the development and the use of the A-Bomb in order to impress Russia. ... Stimson had even referenced the bomb as being "the master card" of diplomacy toward Russia. ... Alperovitz makes one fair claim and it's that the United States wanted to impress Russia with their military prowess by dropping the bombs on Japan. ... The Japanese had no plans to surrender, but plans to secure an armistice with Russia ...

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This second front was important for Stalin, as it would help to take the pressure off the Russians on the Eastern Front. ... This had frustrated Stalin as he was hoping the German troops to be withdrawn from the Russian Front leading up to more tensions arising. ... America and Russia built up their stockpiles of nuclear weapons where power became dependent upon the ability to outspend each other. ... Russia also concentrated on producing bigger bombs making the procedure extremely costly in which they could not afford. ... The Cold War was a significant event in world history portraying the t...

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The single most important event since 1877 in United States history was the Manhattan Project, the project to create the Atomic Bomb. ... This was extremely significant because President Truman could now use "Atomic Diplomacy" when dealing with the Russians. ... The Russians however were able to achieve atomic capabilities when they received classified information from a spy working in the inner-circle of Manhattan Project scientists. ... With this betrayal, the United States was no longer able to use atomic diplomacy to make the Russians bend to its demands. ... Yet this complete d...

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The Russian's strategy involved provocative threats, which included intimidating Mao with nuclear force. ... Labor columnist Victor Riesel, stated that the Russian-Chinese rift was a planned operation to "throw non-communist forces off their guard" (p. 23). ... With the fall of the Soviet Union, the Chinese and Russian leaders developed a less unified strategy in enacting their agenda, but both seem to continue to employ deceit as a weapon of choice. Nyquist (2012) states "China and Russia continue to collaborate on issues relating to the Korean Peninsula, the Middle East,...

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France and the People's Republic of China were the last of the five to sign in 1992, while Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States signed in 1968. ... Those Depositary Nations are the Russian Federation, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America. ... However close this entire history may be, I intend to concentrate on the last 4 years. ... Russia has already indicated that it will develop new "tactical" weapons in response and no one doubts our enemies will follow suit (guardian.co.uk)."" ... At the height of the Cold War, MAD, or Mu...

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Without the support of his sea power and air power, his land forces cannot do anything except hold out in isolated beleaguered spots all over the map until bombs, bullets, disease, or starvation killed them off- The Russians, under Stalin, gave notice that it would not renew its existing Neutral Pact with Japan and would enter the war on the Allied side. So another alternative could have been to await the Russian entry into the war as an American ally. ...

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The great wars of world history have tended to be at once political, economic, and ideological struggles. ... What would be Russia's response to a perceived threat of encirclement by breakaway republics, a resurgent United States that is fast assuming the role of a global policeman, an industrialised China, a dynamic Japan, Terrorism and a "hostile Islam-, an economically unstable Eastern Europe, and a modernised NATO? ... Each rival power subscribes to an ideology that promises inevitable victory to its own system of values and assures it that history is on its side. ... Desp...

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Throughout the past century, history has been reshaped countless times. ... Once again, history had begun to repeat itself. ... And such was the end of an era of war but with it came a new era of uncertainty and fear, as the enormous Socialist state of the Soviet Union, formerly Russia, rose to become an opposing superpower to America. ... Most clearly, it is a prime example of how history repeats itself, and, if one heeds the warnings of the past, how that same history can be avoided. Perhaps we could all learn something from that most trying episode of history in today's world. ...

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Poland was unquestionably of the greatest concern to the Soviets, as it had been used as a launching pad for the invasion of Russia during both World Wars. ... This resulted in 25,000,000 citizens being deprived of shelter during the harsh Russian winter. ... The Russian population was left starving, as an immense amount of damage was done to the Soviet Unions agricultural capabilities: 98,000 collective farms and 2,890 machine and tractor stations were sacked. ...

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When it comes to military aspects, the United States can prove itself easily as a unipole; in 2007 the US spent 623 billion dollars, while the rest of the world combined summed up 500 billion dollar in military expenditures.3 Taking a look at the US history after the Cold War one can see that a unipolar system can be very troubled and full of conflicts. ... Put another way, the first two decades of unipolarity, which make up less than 10 percent of U.S. history, account for more than 25 percent of the nation's total time at war.... First World War was the formation of the Triple Alliance...

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Had the American and Russian forces banned together to invade Japan, this virtually suicidal style of combating would have resulted in an enormous amount of fatalities for both sides. ... The Manhattan Project was notably one of the most imperative elements of American History. ...

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Though these restrictions proved difficult to enforce due to fringe dealings with Russia and China and other trade through secret and non-sanctionable channels, the lack of Iranian Weapons of Mass Destruction would indicate their success. ... This dialogue proved effective, initiating the most progressive negotiations between the nations in their motley shared histories. ...

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Background and During the Cooling of Relations The Second World War drastically changed the political map of the world, and especially the European continent. The basic premises of the new alignment of the world developed in the final stages of the war. The anti-Hitler coalition, the main role which played the great powers - the US, the USSR, England, and at the last stage of the war France - increasingly reflect the new balance of power in the world. Neither Britain nor France, nor even, defeated Germany could not play in the post-war period of the previous role of the guarantor of balance a...

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