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Prisoner's Dilemma by William Poundstone

Mathematician John von Neumann's biography by William Poundstone entitled Prisoner's Dilemma is examined in five pages and include...

Post Cold War Future World Visions

well as the permanent deployment of many American troops bases and garrisons abroad were involved (1996). The U.S. military leade...

George F. Kennan's Containment, the National Security Council's NSC 68, and the Cold War Policy of the United States

off in dividends for alliances with one side or another. These dividends often as not came in the form of nuclear and other extre...

Sputnik Shock

less than a month later with Sputnik II, in which a dog was successfully launched into orbit, it appeared as if the Soviet Union w...

How And Why The Cold War Began

means of murder, war and starvation (Kurth, 1995). Disaster after disaster followed one upon another through the middle nineteen ...

Faulty Basis for the Cold War

had been "brainwashed" during their captivity in Korea (Tibbets, 1997). In fact, brainwashing became "the ultimate Cold War fear"...

Origins and Implications of the Cold War Era

War; shortly thereafter, representatives of the Allied powers met in Europe for the Potsdam Conference, where territories were div...

Arms Control and the Cold War

British Prime Minister) in 1946 that required immediate attention. Proposing that atomic energy be placed under international con...

Peacekeeping Operations of the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

collective defense against one perceived threat. R?hle said that the architecture should be looked at "as a series of key politica...

Engelhardt's The End of Victory Culture

other words, conflict has several specific social and cultural functions, especially in terms of the way that a nation defines its...

Aftermath of the Cold War

also during this time in history where smaller nations were the targets of intense competition between the United States and the S...

Post Cold War Relations in the Middle East

US relations with Middle Eastern countries have changed substantially over time. In the years following World War II the Eisenhow...

World Instability in the Years Following the Cold War

The way the United States relates with other nations has changed dramatically over our history. These changes have been particula...

America, Russia, and the Cold War 1945-1990 by Walter LaFeber

or another, repeat itself. In his introduction the student can find information which alludes to this theory as LaFeber presents u...

Red Storm Rising, The Hunt for Red October, and the Cold War

authors practically since the beginning of the written word. These depictions have changed radically over time, however, in respo...

Conclusion of the Cold War and American Foreign Policy

disjoined and cold not be seen as posing such a significant risk mean that there was time for a change. We can...

History and Impact of the Cold War

slow process of the building up of defences between the ever expanding Eastern block and the strong alliance of the Western countr...

Sean Greenwood's Britain and The Cold War, 1945-91

policy and the position of the British government. Britain was trying to assert itself as a world power during those decades and t...

The Cold War

Introduction The cold War was an incredibly volatile time in the world when the Soviet Union and the United States stood at a rel...

Cold War Politics and Culture

War II comes to an end when the United States uses nuclear weapons to force the unconditional surrender of Japan. The magnitude of...

The Causal Origins of the Hippie Movement

up at the time. As expressed in the infamous Port Huron Statement by Students for a Democratic Society (1962), the fear-mongering ...

Human Intelligence in the Cold War

as spy satellites are vital to intelligence gathering efforts, the best tool for making sense of human behavior remains the human ...

The Cold War - Beginnings

military might, and the entire nation, paralyzed (Weisberger, 1985). Among those who wanted Germany virtually destroyed was Stalin...

The Cold War and the Crisis in Asia

give the U.S.S.R. a presence in the region to counteract the American influence. The two nations also differed in their interest...

Influences on Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451”

what was to come" (Furlong, 2003). Bruenning was a member of the "banned Proletarian Revolutionary Writers Union at the time, and ...

Film Analysis: On the Beach (1959)

Soviet Union were busy building up their nuclear arms arsenals, the specter of the nuclear holocaust hung over society and haunted...

WWII And The Cold War

This stereotypical clash with womens new on-the-job expectations created a shift in the treatment they received when toiling at a ...

Vietnam through a Cold War Lens

was accepted as justification for intervention in Southeast Asia. The background to the American intervention shows how the Vietn...

Truman and the Beginning of the Cold War

for this type of research, but in explaining Lefflers work, Trachtenberg has gone into substantial detail about Trumans policies, ...

"Ending the Cold War" by Herrmann and Lebow

pursuing a d?tente "that would stabilize mutual deterrence and contain the costs of competition in regional affairs" (Herrmann and...