Not only did they hold many more nuclear warheads, their weapons delivery systems were much more developed compared to the Chinese. ... National security analyst Jeffrey Nyquist held the assumption that the border clashes between China and the USSR and the "aircraft accident" of alleged conspirator Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) General Lin Biao were allegedly staged incidents meant to provoke the West. ...

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Jack Ryan, a subcontracted analyst for the CIA runs the pictures past a friend who conteplates the idea of a new "Worm" or jet propulsion that would bring in outside water and compress it and move the submarine through the water virtually soundless and without the unique signature that the "screws" or propellers give each boat or submarine--like that submarine's own fingerprint. ... Soon, these cavetations are identified as the new water propulsion system of the Red October, the newest neuclear powered submarine of the USSR. ... The Red October is picked up by a very wise US killer atta...

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This war causes a bipolar system in the world where there were two dominant powers fighting to become the dominant power. ... The people in the communist countries wanted to break away from Russia and they felt that the communist system was very oppressive. If one level of analyst had to be chosen to describe the Cold War it would have to be the nation-state level and the key issue in the nation state level would be the alliance issue. ...

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A conflict between USSR and the USA which was the very beginning of the Cold War was not only a military one but rather ideological contest between the systems: communism and capitalism. ... Mikhail Gorbachev, who tried to save the situation even by half-measures only led to the collapse of the system. ... Even though west countries were deeply convinced at Russia entered right way to the democracy, but in the same moment Russia turned to system based on the oligarchy. ... Similar claims were made by some Western analysts, who asserted that the United States ' 'had promised the Russ...

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The United States possessed 1,054 ICBM's, and with submarine launching systems, were capable of detonating nuclear warheads any place on the planet. ... One such dissenter, Phil Williams, an analyst with the Royal Institute of International Affairs explained in 1985: By opting out of the arms race and placing, or misplacing, its faith in the arms control process, it is argued that the United States enabled the Soviet Union not only to achieve strategic parity but, in certain respects at least, to attain a degree of superiority (Williams, par. 1). ... However, many views of the internati...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate