Mutual assured destruction

The Lasting Impacts of the Cold War After WWII, the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as the two world superpowers. The two nations held great influence, “restructuring the international system into a bipolar world” (Kaufman, 2010, #77). The United States offered democracy and capitalism, while the Soviet Union represented the new economic system of communism. The two conflicting ideologies represented different international world orders. The United States and the Soviet Union’s…

capitalism or communism the dominant ideology. This conflict lasted for 45 years after the end of World War two and it can be understood most of the events that transpired during that time adhered to certain concepts: the bipolar world, mutually assured destruction (M.A.D),…

world after the end of World War II as the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki became clear to the public of the West who feared the attack with use of such a weapon on home soil by the Communist East . Tension achieved a maximum in 1962 through the Cuban Missile Crisis as the Communist encroachment of nuclear arms came within striking distance of the USA. The fears that erupted from this eventually led to a nuclear standoff and the Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) doctrine that would ensure…

controlled the nations defense system, made it impossible for humans to possess control. Since human beings were unable to monitor the machines directly, the result was the inevitable nuclear holocaust. In Kubrick 's film, Dr. Strangelove, nuclear destruction resulted as the consequence of an insane anti-Communist military base commander and his deliberate actions.…

Viewpoint 30A “The United States Should Not Drop the Atomic Bomb on Japan.” The Franck Committee, 1945. Dropping a nuclear bomb on Japan would initiate grim political and economic problems in the future of the United States. Without international control of nuclear weapons, a nuclear armaments race is ensured. The Franck Committee states, “...A race for nuclear armaments is certain to ensue following the first revelation of our possession of nuclear weapons to the world” (239). The use of…

Why are nuclear weapons tolerated given their overwhelming destructive power? This has been justified by the theory of nuclear deterrence. This theory hypothesizes that if a nation armed with nuclear weapons threatens nuclear retaliation, other countries will refrain from initiating a military attack. It began its life after Hiroshima as the threat to destroy cities. During the Cold War, nuclear deterrence preserved the peace between the two great powers by making the resort to a nuclear war…

Richard Nixon served as president in 1969-1974 he went to visit China because he wanted to improve the relations of the communist country during the Cold War. The organization of OPEC was made to unify petroleum policies to ensure and secure the stability of oil and economy. Detente was a time or period of relaxation to make better the relationships between the Soviet Union and the United States. The Salt 1 it’s a bilateral confederence between the United States and the Soviet Union in gun…

points are going to be a huge help overall to every country they applied to, and they were. “Wilson 's Fourteen Points won him acclaim around the globe. People from all walks of life welcomed Wilson 's vision of an international system based on shared mutual interests and collective security. The Fourteen Points became the moral standard to which liberals and Socialists rallied.” Leading to the forming of the League of Nations and eventually national tranquility, the Fourteen points were a…

the Kremlin, Reagan in 1983 propelled a push to manufacture a shield against intercontinental cruise missiles including space-based weapons. The Strategic Defense Effort to start (SDI), named "Star Wars," dumped the predecessor doctrine of Mutual Assured Destruction that expected that neither one of the sides would begin a nuclear war since it would not have the capacity to stay away from devastation. Despite the fact that Reagan's "Star Wars" never prompted the utilization of military services…

weapons and nuclear bombs to scare each other off, and to stop them from attacking. This was called the “Arms Race.” Eventually, they had so many nuclear weapons that neither could attack each other without being destroyed. This is called “Mutual Assured Destruction.” They also raced to complete space missions to show that they had better technology and scientists. In the 1950s The Soviet Union sent a satellite called Sputnik to orbit the earth. The US then started NASA and launched their first…