In the early morning hours of 2 March 1969, Soviet border security personnel spotted a platoon-sized element of Chinese soldiers crossing the frozen Ussuri River, which forms a natural boundary between China and the USSR. The Soviet border outpost situated on the Ussuri launched a small contingent to intercept the Chinese element. ... China dismissed Moscow's aggressive posture and Mao was reluctant to respond to peace negotiations. ... The evidence for Reisel's assertion was based upon information obtained from intelligence agencies in other Asian countries regarding joint Chinese-S...

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The system is designed to protect the U.S from the other superpowers, Russia and China. The U.S is saying the system is to protect from its current enemies so a cold war will not break out; the U.S versus Russia and China. ... The U.S plan for a defense system has caused problems with the Russian Chinese alliance. ... Both Russia and China fear the U.S is becoming too powerful. ... Russia, China, North Korea) see the development of a defense system as a threat. ...

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France under Charles the Gaulle and China under Mao Zedong desired the same political benefits nuclear weapons gave Britain. ... China also wanted to accelerate its own nuclear program. ... In 1964, China joined the nuclear club just four years after France. Nuclear weapons also gave China the status and prestige to attract Communist states and parties to its side. ... [WWW document]. http://www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org/briefs/vol4/v4n25nuc.html Nuclear History at the National Security Archive [WWW document]. ...

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The idea of a nuclear bomb amid a precarious world prone to wars was marked as a watershed in the history of warfare. ... It was one of the most devastating attacks in the history of mankind with its effects lasting for generations. ... After the Sino-Indian war, India intensified its Nuclear program as a deterrence against China and tested its first nuclear device in 1974. ...

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France and China, which did not sign the PTBT, did conduct tests in the atmosphere until 1974 and 1980. ... France and China, both nuclear powers, declined to ratify the treaty until 1992, and some nuclear powers, including Israel and Pakistan, have 3 never signed. ... The NPT has become the most widely-adhered to arms control treaty in history. ...

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At this time, Japan was aiming to take control of China, though China refused. So, the United States started supplying China with war gear. ... I could not worry about what history would say about my personal morality. ... World War Two was the worst war in history. ...

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As their representative Oe traveled to China and met with China's communist leader at the time Mao Tse-tung. ... Whether they were received positively or negatively Oe's books have impacted the way people see the Japanese and the toils and troubles they have gone through in their history. ... Being raised during one of the darkest times in Japanese history Kenzaburo Oe managed to make a great life out of the opportunities he was given by sharing his geniusness with the world, showing them what life really is like and how to persevere through any and all circumstances. ...

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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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The defense of a nation has come a long way in the span of history. ... Missiles have come a long way though out history. ... The most significant early development though was Chinese with the invention of gunpowder. (4) They even went as far as incorporating explosives with missiles and creating the first multi-stage missile. Despite the Chinese being before their time, the first true long-range missile can be credited to the Nazis during WWII. ... This system was very low-scale, calling only for protection of major cities from rouge states such as China. ...

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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. ... Certified copies of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in English, French, Russian, Chinese and Spanish are held on deposit by the Depositary Nations as proclaimed in Article 102 of the United Nations Charter. ... With this great nation's history of selective application and enforcement of numerous other treaties to which our Presidents have signed their name, it becomes feasible to ask if the United States has followed its ...

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After Japan was put into such a weak position, not only did the United States ask for them to surrender, but so did the British and Chinese governments. Japan refusing to surrender at this time is what caused the United States to use a bomb that would change history forever. ... The effect this bomb had on people was far greater than the B-29 bomber attacks, simply due to the fact that not only was this attack a significant part of war history, but the effects caused by radiation of this bomb is still causing people to be sick hundreds of years later. ... War always consists of political decis...

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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.... During the World War II however there was different alli...

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Nuclear Weapons History. ... 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. ... That China would need Wen Ho Lee's help to build a compact nuclear warhead is indisputably absurd and calls to question the intelligence, competence and character of numerous U.S. officials and co...

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But, even with this threat fading into history with the fall of the once grand Soviet Union, this book looks back at what then, could have been, and now what once might have been. Now the next few chapters were very well written due to the fact that as stated before knowing the exact consequences to war are impossible, the writer tells of mass hysteria, destruction, panic, and the launch of missiles by every major country including the China, but the book does have one flaw in its attempt to stay as close to possible realistic outcome, when Pat Frank was writing this novel talk of the star war...

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However, the possession of nuclear arms by Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Israel, and Pakistan are not treated as threats to America's vital interests. ... The revolution used anti-Westernism as a catalyst, due to the monarchy's very close relations with the United States and the history of political meddling by Western powers, such as, Britain and the US. ...

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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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The December 7, 1941 sneak attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese was one of the great defining moments in history. ... Among the attendees at the Conference were allied leaders of Britain, Russia, China and the US (Churchill, Stalin, and Truman). ...

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Hiroshima started the day like any other normal city; people were trying to live their lives like there was not a war going on. But the fear of being the next target swept through Hiroshima, other cities such as Kure, Iwakuni, Tokuyama, and other nearby towns were air raided by B-29 also known as M...

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Ever since the first contact between the English settlers and the Powhatans in Virginia in 1607, a then the arrival of Africans in 1619, race has been significant in our history. ... When the first Chinese immigrants arrived, they were condemned as the "yellow peril." ...

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Eisenhower is one of the most influential and productive men in American history, winning the country over by playing a key role in ending the Korean War as well as instituting the Interstate Highway Funding Act. ... The North Korean casualties were estimated to be around 520,000 and about 900,000 Chinese soldiers died supporting the North Koreans. ...

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Tensions between Russia and the West have been high throughout history. ... However, Communism was prominent in China and towards the end of the Cold War U.S-Chinese relations were relatively good. ...

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"In both legend and history, famous warriors have possessed swords with extraordinary powers" (7). ... "The Chinese discovered that a mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur produced a compound that had explosive effects" (40). ...

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"Stimson.. seemed at least as much concerned with the role of the atomic bomb in the shaping of history as in it's capacity to shorten this war" Stimson then tackled this project head on and an Interim committee was set up to control the S-1 issue. ... Even after the Chinese Prime Minister had physically gone to the White House to inform the president that this would be the best way for America to win the war. ...

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