In the early days of the Cold War, thermonuclear conflict was everywhere an imminent threat. With the realization that mutual destruction was the likely result of a nuclear war, US policy makers were forced to articulate a coherent stance on what they would do if the United States went to war with the USSR. The paradox of defeat or mutual annihilation was one that plagued American policy makers and scholars, whatever their stated position.
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Shorter treatments include James E. Dougherty, The Bishops and Nuclear Weapons (Handen, CT: Archon Books, 1984), Chapter 2; and Telford Taylor, Nuremberg to Viet Nam (New York: New York Times Book Co., 1970), Chapter 3. 2.
Although President Wilson had inspired the League's formation , the Senate fell back on a longstanding tradition of isolationism in world affairs and refused to permit the United States to join . Several Senators quoted from George ...
Orwell and his contemporaries — futurists like H. G. Wells and Aldous Huxley — left their legacy in informed , often prescient , writings that continue to be relevant today . All three of these major twentieth - century futurists ...
In the midst of a Third World War nuclear holocaust, a U.S. president battles his successor to preserve humanity, Russia is in turmoil, and a B-52 carrying nuclear warheads and an ill-assorted crew heads toward the U.S.S.R
In the early 1970s, ten years after the Cuban missile crisis and the US and Russia targeted each other's cities with nuclear warheads, America is still struggling to recover.
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The spread of nuclear weapons to unstable third world countries such as Iraq means that despite the dramatic improvement in US/Soviet relations, we are living in a time of unprecedented danger of nuclear war.
A rogue Russian nuke sails toward the harbors of Los Angeles in the hull of a ramshackle sailboat.