Nuclear Shadowboxing: Contemporary Threats from Cold War Weaponry; Volume 1: Cold War Redux, Volume 1DeVolpi, Inc., 2004 - 500 pages |
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... attack with only five rockets . ) The Cuban missile crisis is widely known to have brought the superpowers to the verge of nuclear war . Even after the demise of the Soviet Union , missile alerts have reached alarming levels . Both ...
... attack with only five rockets . ) The Cuban missile crisis is widely known to have brought the superpowers to the verge of nuclear war . Even after the demise of the Soviet Union , missile alerts have reached alarming levels . Both ...
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... attack ? We find we must reject much of the conventional wisdom on both sides of this question : We reject the notion that even a “ rogue state ” such as Iran or North Korea will be so irrational as to commit national suicide by ...
... attack ? We find we must reject much of the conventional wisdom on both sides of this question : We reject the notion that even a “ rogue state ” such as Iran or North Korea will be so irrational as to commit national suicide by ...
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... attack, a slim margin for decision or error exists in operational policies for launching missiles; only tens of minutes are available for heads of state to make fateful command decisions. Of the 20,000 false alerts processed in the ...
... attack, a slim margin for decision or error exists in operational policies for launching missiles; only tens of minutes are available for heads of state to make fateful command decisions. Of the 20,000 false alerts processed in the ...
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... attack. Of the ten scarce minutes available for Russian officers to decide whether it was a hostile missile, it is said that eight of those minutes were used to alert the Russian command, all the way up to President Yeltsin. For this ...
... attack. Of the ten scarce minutes available for Russian officers to decide whether it was a hostile missile, it is said that eight of those minutes were used to alert the Russian command, all the way up to President Yeltsin. For this ...
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... attack was the emotional residue from the devastating surprise attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor (a day that “will live in infamy”), which brought the United States into the war. Moreover, racial biases were often verbalized and ...
... attack was the emotional residue from the devastating surprise attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor (a day that “will live in infamy”), which brought the United States into the war. Moreover, racial biases were often verbalized and ...
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Page 43 - In the councils of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
Page 102 - Treaty undertakes to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control.
Page 98 - Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
Page 46 - Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientifictechnological elite.
Page 44 - We have gone on piling weapon upon weapon, missile upon missile, new levels of destructiveness upon old ones. We have done this helplessly, almost involuntarily: like the victims of some sort of hypnotism, like men in a dream, like lemmings heading for the sea, like the children of Hamlin marching blindly along behind their Pied Piper.