They had to speed up with the technology, industry and the agricultural sector, and also with the scientific and technological development. ... Only one technological development showed the rest of the world that the Soviet Union is still alive and trying to improve its technology, this was in the early 1960s when the first man went to space. ... During the last decades the employment in this sector was increasing instead of decreasing, it showed that the Soviet Union couldn't move forward with the new technology and couldn't improve the agriculture productivity. ...

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While more nations have the technology to make nuclear warheads, many do not due to political pressure. ... For example, South Africa developed the technology to produce nuclear missiles, and then dismantled them. (1) In doing so it became the first nation to voluntarily giving up its nuclear missiles. ... A new Stanford database has been formed that lists illicitly obtained weapons-grade nuclear material as well as scientific or medical material that may have been lost, misplaced or thrown away. (5,7) Our ability to track material has aided the world in catching many smugglers. ... To supp...

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The word "multipolar" in international relation is scientifically defined as "a distribution of power in which there are a number of poles, or great powers, in the international system" . ... Waltz argues that "despite the condition of anarchy, states will stop well short of hegemony if geography or technology or social organization favors the defense." ... America's constant grow in its strength relied largely on new technologies, especially the internet and telecommunications that produced a massive shift in the power of capital to generate unprecedented economic growth, mass consumptio...

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The U.S. long-term policy of containing Soviet expansion while encouraging democratic reform in Central and Eastern Europe through scientific and cultural exchanges, information policy, and the United States' own example, provided invaluable support to the peoples of East Central Europe in their struggle for freedom. ... The Soviet economy had long-term problems because of its lack of integration into the world economy, in particular it had fallen behind in areas of technology and research Together with a rigid command structure of economic decision making this made the Soviet economy st...

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