In, 1950, when the Korean War started, NATO was one of the crucial factors in helping the fight against North Korea. ... He promised that he would personally go to Korea to help end the war. ... The Korean War had just commenced. ... Finally, on July 27, 1953 an Armistice was signed constricting North Korea and South Korea to their pre-war borders. ... A poll taken right after the Korean War ended showed that sixty-two percent of Americans that the war was not worth fighting. ...

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At the end of the Cold War in 1989, the threat of nuclear war was reduced. ... The new anti- ballistic missile system will, as the U.S claims, defend against the current enemies; Afghanistan, Iraq and possibly North Korea, although the U.S ties are becoming stronger with Pyongyang as North and South Korea are undergoing peace treaty talks. ... The U.S does not have the strongest ties with North Korea and North Korea does not have the capabilities to destroy a power like the United States. "North Korea What would such a state gain by attacking the United States except its own destruction?" .....

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The Threat of a Nuclear War Many things relating to nuclear proliferation have changed since the collapse of the Soviet Union. ... Some would say that the threat of a nuclear war has gone down in today's post Soviet society. ... The threat of a nuclear war is greater now that the cold war is over because, more nations have nuclear warheads, the smuggling of nuclear materials is on the rise, and nuclear treaties are ineffective. ... Russia has sold many of its nuclear weapons to North Korea to help regain economic stability. (5) The worldwide proliferation of nuclear warheads has made ...

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Workplaces stored water and food in preparation for a nuclear war that did not materialize. Through the early years of the cold war Americans believed that nuclear weapons were war fighting tools that were likely to be used in an international conflict involving both the US and the Soviet Union; however, nuclear weapons were not used on China during the Korean War for fear that the Soviet Union might retaliate with a nuclear weapons attack on the U.S. ... At that point, nuclear weapons were no longer weapons of war, they were political tools useful for avoiding nuclear war and manipulating...

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The Soviets utilized the threat of nuclear war and their sheer power to force Mao to back down, but it's quite possible that Mao and Brezhnev used Sun Tzu's tactics to deal with their mutual adversary: the United States. In Sun Tzu's Art of War first chapter, entitled Laying Plans, the eighteenth rule is as follows: all warfare is based on deception (Cantrell, 2003). ... Perhaps the Soviets and Chinese leaders were simply utilizing Sun Tzu's "all war is based on deception" passage on an immense scale. ... Nyquist (2012) states "China and Russia continue to...

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Thankfully, operation downfall never became a reality because of the use of the atomic bomb, the atomic bomb gave Japan the unthinkable opportunity to immediately surrender, without this who knows how much longer they would have been at war. ... "In the first two decades of the Cold War, there were a number of occasions during which a form of atomic diplomacy was employed by either side of the conflict. ... During the Korean War, President Truman once again deployed the B-29s to signal U.S. resolve," (https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/atomic). Although there were many...

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Looming not too distantly on the horizon was the juggernaut of World War II. ... Yet all this was put to a stop, for a time, as the nation was hurled headlong into the war. ... Hundreds of thousands of troops were shipped off to aid the war in both the European and Pacific fronts. ... And Hollywood, who had before been ridiculed for its works, now began producing pro-war films and propaganda, helping enormously with the "home front-, maintaining civilian confidence and keeping the country afloat in times of war. ... Still today, warnings of possible nuclear-based terrorist attacks, and of Nor...

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Weapons proliferation is a huge problem for the entire world; however it has been a problem since World War I. There was an arms race between Germany and Great Britain that lead to World War I. The arms race between the United States of America and the Soviet Union (the Cold War), nearly lead to World War III. ... For example, the war against terrorism in Afghanistan, the Afghan government used artillery against the United States that the United States sold to them when they were fighting the war against Russia; this is referred to as deadly returns. ... Rogue states like Iraq and North ...

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Some of these jobs included: a reporter for the New York Journal, a reporter for the Washington Herald; he was chief of the overseas news agency bureau; he was assistant chief of mission for the Office of War information; he was a correspondent for overseas News agency in Italy, Austria, Germany, Turkey, and Hungary; he was chief of staff emeritus for the Atlantic beach Navy, he was a member of mission to Korea for United Nations, he was a member of the staff for the Democratic National Committee, and last he was a consultant to the National Aeronautics and Space council, and the department ...

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For years, movie writers and novelists alike have scared the world time and time again with the chilling tales of nuclear war. ... I think not) that tension between the two super powers had tightened, and the world was on the brink of war. ... But never the less, the following mourning after the late night arrival of Randy's brother's family, war breaks out. ... This two chapter synopses of the "war of all wars" is the only time that Pat Frank in any of his science fiction novels shows victory (for what its worth in a nuclear war to the United Sates) because he made it a poin...

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This bought the fear that another world war, again with Europe its main arena, a distinct possibility. ... The following two weeks the world was holding its breath in anticipation of a full-scale nuclear war. ... The missile crisis was a tremendous shock to the two superpowers, unlike the Korean war of 1950 - 53, the confrontation this time was not between substitutes, but between the Americans and the Soviets themselves, who were both looking at the prospect of having each other's nuclear missiles bearing down on themselves. ... The Cuban paradox led the two superpowers to reach a number...

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There is still nuclear war and how that our world has enough nuclear weapons to kill everyone and the planet 10 times over. ... They where "racing" each other to make the first atomic bomb but America got there first and tested its strength in Japan twice which ended World War 2. ... Now the new news is North Korea and how they are starting to build more weapons of mass destruction and using missile technology to reach as far as America, this means they have the ability to wage a nuclear war on basically anyone from there own country. ...

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Levine, defense analyst and former official in the U.S. executive and legislative branches, thinks not, he states that: The dirty little truth is that North Korea, or any other terrorist state, not to mention nonstate groups like Osama bin Laden's, will be able to deliver terrorist weapons - biological, chemical, maybe even nuclear - by a number of nonmissile means. ... After all these years, Star Wars remains a multibillion-dollar expenditure with no end in sight. ...

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Countries such as "South Africa has dismantle its nuclear power and South Korea and Taiwan have halted their nuclear programs; Iraq has been manhandled into giving up its nuclear preparation. ... Kumar explains that the reason give by India president to US President was that testing was done due to "deteriorating security environment" and mentioned all the wars that India had been through in past decades. ...

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