Essays 121 - 150
hippos in the river that Schweitzer came up with the phrase "reverence for life," which he later asserted was his only message for...
The writer discusses the efforts made by the U.S. during the Cold War to win other nations to its view. The methods discussed incl...
military engaged in a deadly stand-off against the Soviet Union, with both sides poised to destroy the other. The insane doctrine ...
also the ongoing breakdown between Cuba and the United States.3 Twelve hundred American-trained Cuban exiles had visions of viole...
War that followed seemed like fighting through one nightmare only to wind up in the middle of another one, only the second one las...
Soviet Union were busy building up their nuclear arms arsenals, the specter of the nuclear holocaust hung over society and haunted...
as spy satellites are vital to intelligence gathering efforts, the best tool for making sense of human behavior remains the human ...
up at the time. As expressed in the infamous Port Huron Statement by Students for a Democratic Society (1962), the fear-mongering ...
military might, and the entire nation, paralyzed (Weisberger, 1985). Among those who wanted Germany virtually destroyed was Stalin...
give the U.S.S.R. a presence in the region to counteract the American influence. The two nations also differed in their interest...
had been "brainwashed" during their captivity in Korea (Tibbets, 1997). In fact, brainwashing became "the ultimate Cold War fear"...
pursuing a d?tente "that would stabilize mutual deterrence and contain the costs of competition in regional affairs" (Herrmann and...
for this type of research, but in explaining Lefflers work, Trachtenberg has gone into substantial detail about Trumans policies, ...
was accepted as justification for intervention in Southeast Asia. The background to the American intervention shows how the Vietn...
other words, conflict has several specific social and cultural functions, especially in terms of the way that a nation defines its...
collective defense against one perceived threat. R?hle said that the architecture should be looked at "as a series of key politica...
British Prime Minister) in 1946 that required immediate attention. Proposing that atomic energy be placed under international con...
authors practically since the beginning of the written word. These depictions have changed radically over time, however, in respo...
disjoined and cold not be seen as posing such a significant risk mean that there was time for a change. We can...
slow process of the building up of defences between the ever expanding Eastern block and the strong alliance of the Western countr...
policy and the position of the British government. Britain was trying to assert itself as a world power during those decades and t...
In fourteen pages this paper discusses the nuclear capabilities of North Korea and the threat they presently pose to a post Cold W...
onto the editorial boards of intellectually-oriented newspapers.6 Grose tells of how American intelligence agencies recruited Alb...
to us that, for a 10-year-old, the world continues to hold great promise. In the meantime, no one ever said growing up was easy" (...
In addition, it was...
writes that he was a particularly important source during the Cuban missile crisis. Ultimately, however, Penkovsky became more id...
well as the permanent deployment of many American troops bases and garrisons abroad were involved (1996). The U.S. military leade...
off in dividends for alliances with one side or another. These dividends often as not came in the form of nuclear and other extre...
cope within a new geopolitical global environment. We have seen a pulling back of support in numerous arenas. One of the events ...
served to be a platform for fundamentalist interpretation with regard to religious scriptures. This reawakening, according to the...