Mutual assured destruction

Ronald Reagan’s speech at the Brandenburg Gate was delivered during a transformative time for both Soviet leadership and the American approach to foreign relations. Reagan’s initial presidential stance advocated for a firm, forceful presence meant to deter Soviet advances and aggression against American freedom. Weapons upsurge and military expenditure rose drastically during Reagan’s early years, in efforts to protect Americans in the event of a nuclear altercation with the Soviets. However,…

The News makes the world look as though it has never been worse; they could not be any more wrong. The standards of living in the world has increased dramatically. Some would argue that life has been worse now than it has ever been. Some would say the 1950s was better than now. There are many great aspects about the 1950s as World War II ended, however, many bad aspects as well. Life is better today than it was in the 1950s due to the superior standards of health, better conditions for people…

the Cold War. Truman recognized the threat of Stalin and the expansion of Communism. Nixon realized that the escalation of Mutually Assured Destruction…

arsenals and on occasion threatened their use, they never launched nuclear weapons. But the question is, was there a cause-and-effect relationship between the presence of nuclear weapons and the absence of war? It is easy to assume that a condition of mutual nuclear deterrence accounted for the “long peace.” Though few have argued that nuclear weapons alone kept the Cold War cold, other theories including balance-of-power considerations and the elimination of great power war, it is hard to…

Amid infinitely rising tensions between two world superpowers held apart only by mutually assured destruction, it stands to reason that independent countries would have political and military influence in the outcome of this struggle. In the year 1962, Soviet and American tensions are at an all-time high as the Soviet Union assembles nuclear warheads on Cuban soil, just miles off the coast of Florida. Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union and John F Kennedy, President of the United…

It has been 25 years since the end of the Cold war, the silent battle between the West Capitalism and Russian communism. The ever constant threat of MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction) created the American culture of the fifties and so on. Those born into it were used to the bomb shelters, space race and the constant détente. The conflict of two political and ideological ideas that control most of the world will affect most of what the world would have been today. The surge and rise of massive…

While the United States and the Soviet Union were already in Korea, the United Nations should not have let them attempt to create the government there. The United States and the Soviet Union may have agreed to peacefully set up the government, however the United Nations should have been able to sense that there would still be problems. The United States and the Soviet Union have clashing ideologies and governments. The Soviet Union has a communist government and the United States has a democracy…

By building this culture of mutual respect and understanding, a leader can unite a group of followers into a team. If the leader is able to then communicate his or her knowledge and vision of the organization’s domain to the team, then success is all but assured. This process of communication between understanding of domain and understanding of people will help leader and followers “cocreate” an articulated vision of success (Daft, 2015, p. 405). This clear vision will motivate the team and…

To defend the US, JFK tripled the US’s nuclear capability, increased the number of troops, ships, and artillery, and established the Green Berets, a special force squad. JFK also turned toward aiding third world countries where communism would be fought in the future. A plan similar to the Marshall Plan called the Alliance for Progress was created as a series of projects for peaceful development in Latin America, and the Peace Corps was established to send young volunteers to third world…

and construction. It was then hoped that capitalism's cheap food and other goods would stop the spread of communism. The United States also tried to slow the spread of communism by joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization which was “the first mutual security and military alliance in American history” (“The Cold War”). NATO pushed the Soviets to “create an alliance with the communist governments of Eastern Europe” and the communist expansion triggered the Americans’ fear of a Russian plan…