Nuclear Shadowboxing: Contemporary Threats from Cold War Weaponry; Volume 1: Cold War Redux, Volume 1DeVolpi, Inc., 2004 - 500 pages |
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... of the underlying political, technological, and cultural turmoil that motivated the nuclear arms build- up and engendered widespread public opposition. — Before authoring this book , our careers began in x Nuclear Shadowboxing.
... of the underlying political, technological, and cultural turmoil that motivated the nuclear arms build- up and engendered widespread public opposition. — Before authoring this book , our careers began in x Nuclear Shadowboxing.
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... buildup. Both nations used worst-case analysis, thrusting and jabbing with increasingly sophisticated and impersonalized technological threats, when in fact each side was boxing primarily against its own shadow. Each shadow was an image ...
... buildup. Both nations used worst-case analysis, thrusting and jabbing with increasingly sophisticated and impersonalized technological threats, when in fact each side was boxing primarily against its own shadow. Each shadow was an image ...
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... buildup that approached doomsday scale. Just one of six 100-megaton-plus devices produced by the Soviet Union could have leveled and burned an entire metropolitan area, and, if exploded near the ground, would have spread lethal fallout ...
... buildup that approached doomsday scale. Just one of six 100-megaton-plus devices produced by the Soviet Union could have leveled and burned an entire metropolitan area, and, if exploded near the ground, would have spread lethal fallout ...
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... build up of nuclear arsenals at an early date. They also agreed to achieve nuclear disarmament; thus, while nuclear elimination might seem to be highly implausible, it is already a commitment of the treaty parties. Although the arms ...
... build up of nuclear arsenals at an early date. They also agreed to achieve nuclear disarmament; thus, while nuclear elimination might seem to be highly implausible, it is already a commitment of the treaty parties. Although the arms ...
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... buildup and diversification of fission weapons ( including tactical weapons ) , endorsed preparation for radiological warfare , and supported the development of boosted fission weapons . 73 Despite the reluctance of that committee , a ...
... buildup and diversification of fission weapons ( including tactical weapons ) , endorsed preparation for radiological warfare , and supported the development of boosted fission weapons . 73 Despite the reluctance of that committee , a ...
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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.