Essays on Nuclear War

In Soviet Deception in the Cuban Missile Crisis, James Hansen argues that Moscow’s central tenet has always been “to prevent an adversary from discovering Russian intentions by deceiving him about the nature, scope, and timing of an operation,” conceding the idea that there exists a pattern of covert political or militaristic tactics at work in the world. The clandestine affairs nature of world affairs, politics, and strategic military moves between superpowers has always raised curiosity of how individuals act, plan, and engage behaviors that intertwine uncertain outcomes. In the case of the Cuban Missile Crisis, according to the ...

When people discuss the problems facing young people today, one topic that appears again and again is that of procrastination. Teachers, parents, and many other adults will say that today's teenagers are lazy because they put off doing schoolwork and chores until the last possible minute. They say that procrastination leads to sloppy work, and that young people should start early and dedicate the most amount of time they can to any task they do. Unfortunately, people who speak out against procrastination do not realize that efficiency can lead to bad things, while procrastinating can save time and money. ...

A thought-provoking and original film, “The Fog of War” is highly controversial. The critical reception of the film reflected both some historical disagreements over the Vietnam and Cold Wars and appraisal of its ability to speak to universal and contemporary questions. The director, Errol Morris, was accused of presenting a historically inaccurate and self-serving narrative and being too lenient on the major figure of his film. On the other hand, “The Fog of War” won an Academy Award for being the best documentary. In general, the film tells the audience about grueling problems in ethics, politics, and contemporary history. ...

In 1963, the then U.S. President, J.F. Kennedy, went to Berlin to show the support of the US for West Germany, just 22 months after East Germany, backed by the Soviet Union, had erected the Berlin Wall to restrict free movement between the West and East. The speech was given on the steps of the town-hall of Berlin suburb of Schoenberg (Evans 2). The speech was delivered to Berliners and was intended to give Berliners hope and freedom and reassure them that they had a future in their endeavors as well as their beliefs. Attending the speech was the ...

Terrorism can be simply defined as the use of fear by whatever means to achieve a political objective and therefore includes not only the violence and bombings but also other areas such as cyber terrorism. Following this definition then terrorism can be traced throughout human history with numerous theories used to explore their formation and networking. Due the prevalence of Radical Islamic terrorism in the recent years, a closer examination is necessary to determine the growth and development of these networks. Therefore, in this paper, we shall explore the cold war terrorist networking theory with a comparison with the ...

The Cold War was not only a period in American history where the United States was locked in a massive international rivalry and arms race with the Soviet Union but it was a time of fervent technological, strategic and political development. The United States during World War II had developed a massive new process for technical progress with an applied goal. That is to say, the Manhattan project which culminated with the building of the first ever Atomic bomb was a very important milestone. It showed that civilians and the military could work together for a common goal. While ...

INTRODUCTION

The United States and the then Soviet Socialist Republic, or USSR, had always had ideological differences underlining their relations. The US has always been the world’s champion of democratic ideals, while the USSR promoted the socialist ideology. In World War II, however, the two countries set aside their differences and formed an alliance with other countries to fight a common enemy: the Axis Powers that included Germany, Japan and Italy. The defeat of the Axis Powers resulted in power vacuums, which the two countries immediately tried to fill, thereby, resulting in a contest of superpowers. Suspicions of each ...

Introduction

In November 1960, the Republicans lost the presidential election, and a Democratic Party candidate John Fitzgerald Kennedy became the president of the United States. A relatively young man (43 years), he represented a new generation of American politicians. Veterans of the war years, a generation embodied by Dwight Eisenhower, were to leave the politics in the US. In the Soviet Union, a “war generation” remained in power until the mid-1980s. In France, Germany, and other countries of the Western Europe the same generation continued to reign. The Kennedy team was to revise the postulates of the military-political line of ...

Yes, with the current tensions between the US, Russia, Iran and Korea which are considered major political heavyweights in the global arena, I believe that nuclear war is an inevitability. As a matter of fact, it is no longer a question of whether, but when. This position is also buttressed by the fact currently; there is no strong international legal framework that prohibits countries from manufacturing, storing or using nuclear weapons. The countries that represent the biggest nuclear threats in the world according to Conca include Russia, Pakistan, Israel, China, Cuba, France and Korea (4). The country most likely ...

Assignment

Nuclear War The massive stockpiles of nuclear weapons in the world are supposedly built on the premise that no sane person would use them, and that they are required for deterrence. However, so long as a single nuclear weapon exists, there is a chance for an error, and accident or even a deliberate action for it to be used. Therefore, in the current scenario, where tactical nuclear weapons are being deployed in Pakistan, terrorists are becoming increasingly inventive, and security codes and protocols in place in major nations are not foolproof, the possibility of nuclear war is inevitable (Hellman). ...

The Cold War was a very interesting period in American history as it as much fought domestically and through negotiation of major institutions as much as it was a war in any traditional sense of the word. The Cold War in the United States was everywhere especially early between the end of World War II and 1960s. American society and culture negotiated with the Cold War in many different ways. It popped up as anxiety, fear and something that could actually work to change the country for the better. America’s anxieties with the Cold War were very prominently ...

The focus of the Gorbachev's reforms was liberal, pro-Western. The aim of Gorbachev was to create a liberal, as he hoped, social-democratic opposition to weaken the position of the conservative apparatchiks and, thus, to avoid the fate of Khrushchev, as well as to avoid the forced resignation. Moreover, Gorbachev from the beginning considered the first free elections in the Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR in March 1989 as a tactical move, aimed at the weakening of the position of the conservative party apparatus (Jha). Perestroika is the general name of the reforms and the new ideology of ...

In the early 1960s, a lot of people had no doubt that soon a third world war would start. It was supposed to be a nuclear conflict between the US and the Soviet Union, which would lead to the destruction of humanity, or at least to the collapse of modern civilization. Regularly occurring conflicts like the Korean War of 1950-1953 and the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 intensified the tensions and cultivated the fear in society. Sooner or later, with malicious intent or by mistake, the Cold War could turn into a "Hot War". Everyone understood it, and there ...

Fidel Castro was the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Cuban politician, leader of Cuba and president of Cuba from 1976 to 2008. Castro was adored and hated, praised and despised. It is widely believed that his death will become the worst moment for the Cuban population. The main idea is that Fidel Castro followed his policies, despite the strong opposition of the U.S., without any outside help. There is not much information about the life of Fidel Castro. Special services of Cuba carefully hide his details of biography and private life. Even the exact date of his birth is ...

The origins of Russian-American relations are deeply rooted in 17th -18th century. The first Russian emperor, expressed interest in a faraway country, was Peter I. In January 1719, surveyors were instructed "to go to Kamchatka and then where indicated, to describe those places, whether America converged with Asia". During the reign of Anne of Russia, Bering made two expeditions to those regions: in 1725-1730 and 1733-1741 years he was in the Chukotka Peninsula and Alaska, reaching North America. During the war the United States for independence in the 18th century Catherine II refused to allocate to the English King ...

Détente

Conflicts in ideologies defined the Western democracies and the Communist powers in the 1960s and 1970s. It resulted in a nuclear arms battle between the US and the Soviet Union. Consequently, the leaders of either nation embraced dangerous policies that posed threats to the security of the two states, as well as the whole world. Détente brought changes in policy on both states thus redefining the US-Russia relationship (Duiker and Spielvogel, 2014).

In 1964, Leonid Brezhnev came into power in the Soviet Union after the removal of Nikita Khrushchev from power. Working with Alexei Kosygin, ...

National Reaction to the Cuban Missile Crisis

This paper seeks to outline sources that review the Cuban Missile Crisis. The sources give a background and reasons that stirred a national reaction during the cold war. The Americans had made an attempt under President John Fitzgerald’s administration to overthrow Cuban President Fidel Castro. This led to a bad blood between the two countries. Cubans did not understand the reason of the attack at Bay of Pigs. The American had their naval base at Guantanamo bay in Cuba and had always had a good relationship with Cubans. Following the attack, the Cuban government sought for protection from its ally the Soviet ...

The cold war between US and USSR ended in 1991 after the disintegration of USSR. The world changed from a bipolar world to a unipolar world, and US became the only super power. Disintegration of Russia has given birth to several independent Central Asian States, still under the Russian influence but has the possibility of turning sides towards US. During the cold war, it was only the danger of mutually assured destruction through nuclear war between the two superpowers, however, the world today is perhaps a much lesser safe place due to the danger of nuclear proliferation, fear of total destruction through ...

UN POSITION ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS

There are more than two dozen countries of the world that have nuclear power, however, only a few have nuclear weapons and few are suspected of making nuclear weapons. During the cold war era between US and USSR, nuclear arms race was the most alarming feature as both the super powers rapidly built up their stockpiles of nuclear weapons. Later when both realized, there would be devastation caused by nuclear weapons, they embarked upon a number of agreements for reduction in the number of nuclear weapons. Efforts were speeded up after disintegration of the USSR; however, the issues remained a major challenge ...

Question 1

John Adam’s opera Dr. Atomic is about the history of Robert Oppenheimer and others who participated in the famous 1940’s Manhattan project, to create the atomic bomb. Dr. Atomic is set in Los Amos in New Mexico hours before the test-firing of the first atomic bomb. Postmodernism is the movement in literature, visual arts, music and drama which rejected the Victorian standards of how art should be made, consumed and meant (Heartney 1). Dr. Atomic has different aspects of opera that have differed from the Victorian standards making it postmodern. A key characteristic of postmodernism is that ...

V for Vendetta

Introduction

Utopic and anti utopic movies and novels have always interested writers and directors from all over the world. In some sense, it is interesting to create new worlds, with new social and political systems. On the other hand, it is interesting, as well, to look for disadvantages of modern society and try to improve them. People were always striving to create a better world, even with words and images. In the past several years, there have been many movies devoted to the issue of future alternative reality. This essay is devoted to one of the alternative ...

Security has and continues to remain as one of the primary concerns that should be addressed by various nations. Precisely, lack of security in any given state injures progress on various matters. Evidently, terrorism and nuclear war occurs as the major issues that have and continue to threaten the security of various nations. Nevertheless, living under the threat of nuclear war would more intimidating than living under the threat of terrorism. This is because nuclear war poses more dangers than terrorism. To be precise, nuclear war entail the use of nuclear weapons whose effects are felt over time. Precisely, ...

Who

As the 34th president of the United States, Dwight David “Ike” Eisenhower is responsible for bringing peace after the events of the World War II. The ancestors of Dwight Eisenhower came from Germany and migrated to America in the early 18th century. He was born on October 14, 1890 in Texas although he considered Kansas as his hometown. Eisenhower has two sons with her wife Mamie Geneva Doud. He graduated in West Point Military Academy in 1915 and the infantry at Texas and Georgia. He served most of his life in the military as a general in the World War ...

The time period in which the graphic novel The Watchmen is set is the mid 1980’s. The group of vigilantes called the Watchmen have been banned from continuing to work fighting crime. Although they were previously respected and had great power, they have come to be viewed with fear and hatred. New York has fallen into disrepair and crime is rampant due to a nuclear cold war between the United States and Russia. Rorschach, one of the Watchmen, begins to unlawfully investigate the murder of Edward Blake who worked for the Government under the codename the Comedian. None of ...

Introduction

While on his way to Hiroshima, it was around 7:30 a.m. when Captain William Parsons inserted the detonator along with the explosive charge into the bomb. It was around 8:16 a.m. (Japanese time) when the bomb exploded in Hiroshima over Dr. Shima’s Clinic. The glowing fireball had a temperature of about 50,000 degrees. Soon after this attack, another major city of Japan was attacked. It was basically the idea of General Leslie Groves, General Farrel and Admiral Purnell to launch two atomic bombs on Japan; the first bomb would demonstrate power and the second would tell the Japanese ...

Introduction

Nuclear weapons though not used have been the central to the political conflict of USA and USSR. Presently, in the post-Cold War ambience, this superpower rivalry has been totally removed instead the utility of these weapons are put in question. Nuclear weapons play an important role in the security of the country internationally. No large scale conflicts have been seen in past years after the Second World War inspite of the rapid increase in transportation, communications, as well as weapons technology. These weapons are most destructive instruments give a stabilizing effect on the relations of various countries making the ...

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Abstract This essay broadly narrates the incidents post World War 2 leading up to the Cold War, how United States of America responded to the events of Cold War and the domestic developments in the United States of America during Cold War years. Post the Second World War; the cold war in the following decades can be summarized as the fight between democratic forces of the United States of America and the communist forces of Russia to establish Global supremacy in all spheres of life including governance, military and technology. On the February 4th, 1945 with ...

Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) (1968) The Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Treaty was entered into signature in 1968 and came into force in the 1970 (Denza, 2005). The purpose of the NPT was solely based on the need to promote the proper use of nuclear energy and to reduce the spread and use of nuclear weapons globally. The need to have a peaceful world, away from the threat of nuclear wars and invasions led to a global call common approach in curbing the spread of nuclear weapons. It was deemed as an amicable solution to prevent the ...

Introduction

John F Kennedy was the first American Citizen to become president among the people that were born in the twentieth century. At the age of forty-three, he became the thirty-fifth president of the United States of America. John F Kennedy attended Harvard University and graduated with Bachelor of Science in International Affairs. As the prodigy of a politician and businessman, John F Kennedy got an opportunity to travel around America and around the world. His father Jack, Snr, was the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom. The Kennedy family was in the House of Commons when British politicians were ...

John F. Kennedy’s assassination, in 1963, is perhaps the most investigated murder of the last decades. Some also believe it is the most investigated assassination in the world history, given that a lot of ink has been spent, and various technological tools have been applied with tremendous zeal and scrutiny, so to analyze and study the events that had finally led to Kennedy’s murder. Interestingly, Kennedy was the first man to have been elected president of the United States at the young age of 43, and his presidency has definitely left a valuable legacy. He was a very well-liked president, ...

V for Vendetta is a graphic novel written by Allan Moore. It is a story full of comedy with V as the protagonist who is out to fight and destroy the government and affects innocent people. The novel was later adapted into a film and directed by James McTeigue and written by Wachowski Brothers. The graphic novel was set in 1990’s during the time where the world had suffered from a nuclear war and everything was left destroyed. The film was in 2020 and there was nowhere we are told that there was a nuclear war but there was a revolution against fascist ...

The twentieth century saw number of significant developments and inventions that changed the overall outlook of the world. Out of all these inventions and explorations, atomic bomb was one that had greater impact on the world. The impact of nuclear bomb was strategic, political, economic, social and moral. The first of these events and so far the only instance when the nuclear bomb was experimented took place in the middle of Second World War over Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Langley, 88). It occurred when the atrocities and offensives of Japanese troops and fighters grew beyond the bearable threshold and ...

Book Review: One Minute to Midnight

It is almost two decades since the occurrence of the infamous Cuban missile crisis. The events that unfolded in the fall of 162 have attracted many researchers, who have focused on the analysis of how Cuba, a small island nation, became the focal point of the Cold War. One of the most researched and written about events in the Cold War is the Cuban missile crisis. Prominent researchers have taken this course to give the political view and possible consequences of this infamous event. Various authors and experts have compiled extensive amounts of information from a number of different written sources ...

Kim Jong-un is Korea’s darling leader. He is called by all sorts of praises; "The greatest-ever commander, a great person born of heaven, great successor and an outstanding leader". Hes is both a political and a military leader. Kim Jong-un is the son of Kim Jong-ill, formally a North Korean military leader, and Ko Yong-hee, an opera singer. After the death of his father, Kim Jong-un succeeded him as the new Korean leader. He is estimated to be about 29 or 30 years as no one is sure of his exact date and year of birth. He loves basketball and dancing. Despite ...

The conflict between North Korea and South Korea and United States has existed for more than five decades. The involved parties have tried to resolve this issue through dialogue and signing of international treaties, but in vain. Instead, the conflict seems to escalate day after day; an idea that has affects economic, social, and political development in the region. This issue has escalated enmity between the involved parties and their allies thus weakening regional integration and economic prosperity. The international community has raised its concern about this problem and has tried organizing peace conferences and dialogues with the intention ...

- Introduction The events that took place in the wake of the Cuban missile crisis showed a major test for Western civilization in the 1960s because it was the time when the world faced the possibility of nuclear war. The Soviets were determined to establish their power and influence in the western hemisphere because they could easily attack the United States since this was the heights the events that culminated in the Cold War. the two countries, the US and USSR believed that their actions were civilized, and so it was difficult for either of them to change their ...

Section 1

Nuclear Iran or Nuclear armed Iran has been a much source of debate off late. There have been different reactions from different lobbies to the Tehran’s much-feared nuclear program. Deliberations and talks on the topic have been going on between P5+1 countries and Iran to reach an amicable solution. While P5+1 countries led by US claim that Tehran already possesses nuclear weapons, Tehran has constantly declined the accusations and said that its nuclear program is only for peaceful purposes and to ensure the power security in the nation. The secretive nature of Tehran’s nuclear program makes ...

Socio-Political Impact of Nuclear Power

The debate on the usability and safety of nuclear power has returned back to the limelight due to the on-going issue in Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Plant, and the growing number of nations trying to accumulate nuclear power for their national interest. Nuclear power remains as a crucial topic of national importance for many nations since the discussions for nuclear proliferation and disarmament took place after the Second World War. However, some nations had retained its use for electricity and for other applicable sciences. With the debate on nuclear power back due to the countries trying to harness such volatile power, ...

Today, the United Nations is an organization in a period of transition. It was an organization born from fear of the future, with lofty goals and soaring aspirations. However, from the beginning, the United Nations faced many logistical problems with fulfilling its goals and central philosophies. The United Nations (UN) was designed to replace the League of Nations, the international organizational body that was formed in the post-World-War-I era (Annan, 2000). After the League of Nations failed to stop World War II, the organization was dissolved in 1945 and the United Nations was formed (Annan, 2000). The founding philosophy ...

The Cold War and U.S. Diplomacy

United States Diplomacy

Introduction The Cold War is a state political balance and military competition among that barricade short of all-out war.America’s power to act by promoting its acceptance and moral beliefs to citizens of the other countries, so called as public diplomacy. The commanders of America must tie in competition on the country’s instructional action during the Cold War to amateur the infrastructure for the next creation of public diplomacy.During the presidential administration, an agreement system was arranged to examine the extent of socialist government around the world. The U.S. started a large economic ...

The Cold War significantly influenced the world’s powers’ military, political, economic and social status. The Cold War affected USA’s military status in various ways, both positively and negatively. However, most of the effects of the Cold War made the USA military stronger and more dominant than other world powers’ militaries. The Cold War resulted in an expensive and massive investment in military resources by USA and USSR. The investments made the American military strong as they sought to outdo the Russian military. Many soldiers were recruited to the Army and made the army large. The large army ...

Write a journal of the film Dr. Strangelove (1964)

I always regarded Stanley Kubrick’s film Dr. Strangelove as one of the funniest satires or dark comedies ever made, if the end of the world in a nuclear war can be considered ‘funny’. It was part of a whole genre of nuclear war films made at this time, most notably Fail Safe, in which a nuclear confrontation with the Soviets is triggered by accident, and Seven Days in May, where the military leaders plot a coup against the U.S. government because they oppose a disarmament treaty. When considering this film in the context of moral issues and efforts to limit war, one important ...

JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban missile crisis was the gravest “clash” for the duration of the cold war, the Soviet Union and the United Sates of America came dangerously close to dreadful confrontation when the USSR in an extraordinary hazardous move had begun concealed effort to establish a chief offensive military presence in Cuba in 19621. This potentially outrageous move by the Soviet’s brought the policy makers of both countries to a seriously question their use of military force and diplomacy.

The crisis was a significant event of the cold war which prolonged the hostility period between the Soviet Union the United States. Being ...

The Cold War of 1947 could be considered one of the most peaceful yet chaotic war in history as two of the most influential nations tried to dominate the other through tactical and superior means. With the threat of the Nazi-led Germany eliminated by a temporary alliance, the USSR and the US remained as the two superpowers in dominance in the globe. The USSR tried to solidify its dominance by creating the Eastern Bloc filled with satellite states supporting the country. The US aided in the recovery of the Western European countries through the Marshall Plan. Eventually the US created ...

Science Fiction between 1900 and 1960s

According to McGraw-Hill (2001), “between the year 1900 and the 1960s, science fiction was greatly influenced by the hopes, fears and concerns associated with the social and political changes that took place across the world” (p. 24). For example, many nations in the world were struggling with liberations from colonialism and wars had ensued in many parts of the world. Also, there were various changes that occurred in intellectual and spiritual aspects that were associated with social transformations. Some scholars tackled issues to do with gothic mystery, pessimistic visions, and apocalyptic visions in a bid to expound on issues of ...

Summary

There are a lot of sources that says that the economy and the current technology levels of the countries in the Caspian Sea Region will continue to improve (TNN, 2005) until such time that use of nuclear reactors and nuclear types of energy will be common. Extended use of nuclear power will surely bring in a lot of advantages for the countries situated in the Caspian Sea Region but that doesn’t mean that there will be no corresponding consequences and sacrifices to be made. This is actually why addressing Nuclear Issues in the Caspian Sea and its surrounding regions is ...

Introduction

As a nation increases its political power influence at the global arena, it usually becomes fearful of any potential emerging threats and can deploy any measure in order to combat such entities that are perceived as external threats. The Bay of Pigs Invasions was an instance of one such occurrence, which was accelerated by dire need of the United States to maintain its powerful status quo, while at the same time maintaining its reputation as a prime protector of the human and civil rights. As a response to the perceived threat that the Cuba posed, the United States, with the help of ...

Introduction

To answer the abovementioned question comprehensively, it is appropriate to understand the cold war and the American culture. After which, one can relate them. The Cold War was a time of pressure and antagonism between the United States of America and the Soviet Union from the mid-40s to the late 80s. It began with the conclusion of the Second World War. It was called the Cold War because there was no active war between the two nations, which was probably due to the fright of nuclear increase. There were numerous oblique conflicts for example the Vietnam and Korea wars. ...