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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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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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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"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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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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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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The defense of a nation has come a long way in the span of history. ... Missiles have come a long way though out history. ... Early missile defense was crude and under funded, until October 4, 1947 when the Russians launched Sputnik on top of a multi-stage missile, later followed by the American's answer Explorer I. (2) From the time a missile is launched to the time it lands, it goes through three phases. ...

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Nuclear Weapons History. ... During the cold war this was a reasonable assessment of reality; however, today Russia could use a nuclear weapon in a civil war without fear of nuclear retaliation from any of the world's other nuclear power nation states. ...

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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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(McNamara. 1992) Also the Russians were aware of an American military program called "operation mongoose." ... (National Journal, 2001) Paul Robinson, a nuclear weapons expert, believes that "nuclear weapons have not only been vital to U.S national security, but also that history has turned out better for our having nuclear weapons. ...

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Leaving an impact of epic proportions, the bombs of The Manhattan Project have left scars on Japan and the world to this very day. Never before had one country demonstrated such superior technology, such superior power. Never before had any nation almost completely incinerated an opposing nation, ...

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