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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Better policies in developing countries, together with improved allocation of aid since the end of the Cold War, imply that aid is more effective today at reducing poverty than ever before. ... In the past 50 years of development experience also provide examples " such as the Republic of Korea and Botswana " that illustrate how effective aid can be in supporting reform. Korea, for example, progressed from borrowing from the International Development Association (IDA), to borrowing from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD). Korea ...

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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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