A New World was the phoenix that emerged out of the ashes and smoke of World War II, a world where two large and colossal countries were bitter adversaries, both with nuclear weapons. ... Ironically, it was not the godless, evil communists that had used a nuclear weapon, rather the Democratic peace- loving nation that bombed the two civilian cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki using atomic bombs. ...
Even after W.W.II, the Nazis still talked about wonder weapons and how they could get back at all of the Allies. ... However, the Soviets did provide some assistance by providing weapons and supplies. ... In addition to supplying North Korea with weapons, the Soviet Union further angered the U.S. by its intention to manufacture nuclear weapons. ... Robert Oppenheimer, a nuclear weapons scientist, says "they [nuclear weapons] are not policy weapons but...are themselves a supreme expression of the concepts of total war" (Gilpin 77). Nuclear weapons are considered the most powerful w...
The U.N. aims to put an end to the billions of dollars spent on destructive weapons that much of this violent world creates every day. The statistics that put this statement into perspective are rather disturbing: "The weapons industry is the world's number-two industry, after oil. ... The $100 billion or so spent on weapons by developing countries is three times what it would have cost to provide essential health care, medicines, vaccinations, clean water, and sanitation for all."" ...
Introduction Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in the village of Gori, in the Russian province of Georgia, on Dec. 21, 1879. His father was a shoemaker with a penchant for drunkenness, who left Gori when Stalin was young to seek employment in the city of Tiflis. Thus Joseph's mother, Yekaterina, made the more profound impact on his life--it was she who directed his education, first in the local Gori Church School and then, thanks to a scholarship, at the Tiflis Theological Seminary. There, she hoped, he would train to become a priest. Instead, the young Stalin bec...
