Jack Ryan, a subcontracted analyst for the CIA runs the pictures past a friend who conteplates the idea of a new "Worm" or jet propulsion that would bring in outside water and compress it and move the submarine through the water virtually soundless and without the unique signature that the "screws" or propellers give each boat or submarine--like that submarine's own fingerprint. ... Soon, these cavetations are identified as the new water propulsion system of the Red October, the newest neuclear powered submarine of the USSR. ... The Red October is picked up by a very wise US killer atta...

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• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This war causes a bipolar system in the world where there were two dominant powers fighting to become the dominant power. ... The people in the communist countries wanted to break away from Russia and they felt that the communist system was very oppressive. If one level of analyst had to be chosen to describe the Cold War it would have to be the nation-state level and the key issue in the nation state level would be the alliance issue. ...

• Word Count: 1048
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate