May 3, 2003 Dear Readers, Now, on the 58th anniversary of the only time in history the atomic bomb was used, we are still left with the same question, a question that still generates heated debates. ... Another issue gaining importance as the war drew to a close was what was to be done about Russia. ... If the United States invaded Japan, Russia was sure to be involved. When Japan finally surrendered Russia, of course, would have demanded their piece of the proverbial pie. ... Russia having such power and support would have increased political tensions between t...

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Tensions between Russia and the West have been high throughout history. ... Russia lost and tensions grew between the two. ... As soon as the war ended, the relations between America and Russia cooled. ... These communist countries became satellites of Russia, nothing more than provinces of Russia. ... To Westerners, this Russian advance exceeded their worst fears. ...

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We will show that the Rosenberg's have committed one of the most reprehensible acts in history. ... Evidence shows that the Rosenberg's had a long history of activities in the communist party. ... The nature of Russian terrorism is now self-evident." ... The Rosenberg's conduct in putting into the hand of the Russians the atomic bomb years before our best scientists predicted! ... The betrayal of the Rosenberg's undoubtedly altered the course of history to the disadvantage of our country....

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Gar Alperovitz is the author of Hiroshima: History Reassess. ... " Alperovitz moves on to his next major argument that being the United States only carried through with the development and the use of the A-Bomb in order to impress Russia. ... Stimson had even referenced the bomb as being "the master card" of diplomacy toward Russia. ... Alperovitz makes one fair claim and it's that the United States wanted to impress Russia with their military prowess by dropping the bombs on Japan. ... The Japanese had no plans to surrender, but plans to secure an armistice with Russia ...

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In 1989 when communism fell, with the Berlin Wall, Russia was no longer a nuclear threat and the ties between the U.S and Russia became stronger. ... They obtained it from Russia years ago. ... The only leverage Russia has on the U.S is its weapons arsenal. "The last claim that Russia has to being a superpower is its nuclear arsenal." ... Both Russia and China fear the U.S is becoming too powerful. ...

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This second front was important for Stalin, as it would help to take the pressure off the Russians on the Eastern Front. ... This had frustrated Stalin as he was hoping the German troops to be withdrawn from the Russian Front leading up to more tensions arising. ... America and Russia built up their stockpiles of nuclear weapons where power became dependent upon the ability to outspend each other. ... Russia also concentrated on producing bigger bombs making the procedure extremely costly in which they could not afford. ... The Cold War was a significant event in world history portraying the t...

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The single most important event since 1877 in United States history was the Manhattan Project, the project to create the Atomic Bomb. ... This was extremely significant because President Truman could now use "Atomic Diplomacy" when dealing with the Russians. ... The Russians however were able to achieve atomic capabilities when they received classified information from a spy working in the inner-circle of Manhattan Project scientists. ... With this betrayal, the United States was no longer able to use atomic diplomacy to make the Russians bend to its demands. ... Yet this complete d...

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The Russian's strategy involved provocative threats, which included intimidating Mao with nuclear force. ... Labor columnist Victor Riesel, stated that the Russian-Chinese rift was a planned operation to "throw non-communist forces off their guard" (p. 23). ... With the fall of the Soviet Union, the Chinese and Russian leaders developed a less unified strategy in enacting their agenda, but both seem to continue to employ deceit as a weapon of choice. Nyquist (2012) states "China and Russia continue to collaborate on issues relating to the Korean Peninsula, the Middle East,...

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He acts like he knows it all but he really doesn't in the aspect of pretending he knows exactly the circumstances of the war that Russia and America will be going into. ... This was shown when he came into contact with the Russian ambassador. ... He was a political scientist who would rather have an American culture survive than a Russian one. ... President if you were more concerned about the American People than your image in the history books." President Muffley then is told the ambassador of Russia was waiting upstairs. ...

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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. ... Those Depositary Nations are the Russian Federation, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America. ... However close this entire history may be, I intend to concentrate on the last 4 years. ... Russia has already indicated that it will develop new "tactical" weapons in response and no one doubts our enemies will follow suit (guardian.co.uk)."" ... At the height of the Cold War, MAD, or Mu...

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In July, when the general learned that Japan had asked Russia to negotiate surrender with United stated, he told his staff: "This is it. ... The United States was worried about an emerging Russian threat. ... "The demonstration of the bomb," Byrnes thought, "might impress Russia with America's military might (Giovannitti and Freed 65-6)." ... If that was the case why did the United States attack Japan and not Russia? ... 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 ...

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Now imagine a chance to change history, and end the war in a quick moment. ... As stated in An Eye on History, "All weapons of war are immoral. ... As Phil Boas writes in his article, during the 1947 Tokyo War Crimes trial, Marquis Kido Koichi, a chief adviser to Emperor Hirohito, stated, "the bomb and Russian invasion led to a surrender that likely saved 20 million of my innocent compatriots from war ravages." ... Kawabe Torashiro if Japan could have stopped fighting without the bomb or Russia invasion, he replied "Speaking very frankly, I think we would have been able to extend the war for a...

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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. ... Kennedy's under lying sentiments in his speech on Russia's Gibson II nuclear stance around the world in the first week in October 1962 could have been the catalyst to have changed the out come of the Cuban missile crisis, the above quote was what set Russia to end the diplomatic stale mate and launch against the united sates and we to retaliate in the same. ... With in a short time most of the major ...

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At that time in history the Cold War was at its prime state and America's fear of the Communists was at an all time high. ... One thing that really came of age during this point in history that would be impossible to ignore is the threat of spies and what that particular fear led to. ... The Cold War between the United States and Russia sparked some of the most amazing advancements the world has ever seen. Without the fear that fueled this race for technological superiority we may never have reached as high or gone as far as we did during this crucial time in world history. ...

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Without the support of his sea power and air power, his land forces cannot do anything except hold out in isolated beleaguered spots all over the map until bombs, bullets, disease, or starvation killed them off- The Russians, under Stalin, gave notice that it would not renew its existing Neutral Pact with Japan and would enter the war on the Allied side. So another alternative could have been to await the Russian entry into the war as an American ally. ...

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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. ... Kyoto was the religious and cultural centre of Japan and if they bombed it, the inevitable result would be that Japan would be driven into the arms of the Russians. ... The scientific panel working on the atomic bomb advised Truman that it was necessary to inform Russia about the atomic bomb in order to avoid a nuclear war. At the Yalta...

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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). ... However, there is evidence of a power struggle with Russia and other political reasons for dropping the bombs. ... However, I am thankful that my generation and the future generations did not have to find out what could have happened between American and Russia had we not dropped the bombs. ...

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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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But to understand everything, one must study the entire history of the bomb. ... One could consider the idea that Truman was eager to drop the bomb so that Russia would be easy to handle in post-war negotiations. ...

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The Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START 1), which limited Russian and US nuclear power reduced the military budgets. ... [WWW document]. http://www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org/briefs/vol4/v4n25nuc.html Nuclear History at the National Security Archive [WWW document]. ...

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Throughout the past century, history has been reshaped countless times. ... Once again, history had begun to repeat itself. ... And such was the end of an era of war but with it came a new era of uncertainty and fear, as the enormous Socialist state of the Soviet Union, formerly Russia, rose to become an opposing superpower to America. ... Most clearly, it is a prime example of how history repeats itself, and, if one heeds the warnings of the past, how that same history can be avoided. Perhaps we could all learn something from that most trying episode of history in today's world. ...

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The Russian Premier showed no special interest. ... The reason behind Stalin's lack of interest in response to Truman, was since the Soviet Union had also begun their nuclear research Stalin felt that it would be improper to ask the US about theirs, since the Russians had also kept it a secret. ... I could not worry about what history would say about my personal morality. ... For the first time in human history, there are weapons that can destroy all of the human race....

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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. ... Before the late 1940's, when the United States helped to push out the Russian occupation of northern Iran, Iran had very little interaction with United States. ... 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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Poland was unquestionably of the greatest concern to the Soviets, as it had been used as a launching pad for the invasion of Russia during both World Wars. ... This resulted in 25,000,000 citizens being deprived of shelter during the harsh Russian winter. ... The Russian population was left starving, as an immense amount of damage was done to the Soviet Unions agricultural capabilities: 98,000 collective farms and 2,890 machine and tractor stations were sacked. ...

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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.... First World War was the formation of the Triple Alliance...

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