assessment by American intelligence agencies released Monday concludes that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and that the program remains frozen‚ contradicting a judgment two years ago that Tehran was working relentlessly toward building a nuclear bomb. The conclusions of the new assessment are likely to reshape the final year of the Bush administration‚ which has made halting Iran’s nuclear program a cornerstone of its foreign policy. The assessment‚ a National Intelligence Estimate that
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Bangladesh pharmaceutical market in 2011 stood at approximately US $ 800 million‚ which is very small when compared to the population base of the country‚ which currently stands at about 140 million. To put this number on a proper perspective‚ the total global pharmaceutical sale in 2011 was $600 billion. This is expected to grow about $730 billion in 2013. Of course the majority of the sale in 2011 was in brand products‚ the market segment where Bangladesh does not or is not expected to participate
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Spies in the Cold War Spies had a great role in the cold war‚ a lot of spies were in different areas to find out what other countries were doing or planning to do to then bring back the information to the country they were working for. There were many types of espionage in the cold war for different countries in order to find information that can lead to a victory in the war. I will need to research the different types of espionage there was and what they were looking for‚ I will also need to
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Syrian Civil War Constructivism is a normative international relations theory that seeks to understand the importance of society’s actions and extrapolate its meaning (Adler‚ 1997‚ pp. 319-320). According to constructivism‚ any actor can have xan agency in international relations such as states‚ institutions and individuals and is dissimilar to realism and liberalism where instead of the assumption that states are self-interested and rational‚ it accepts that these actor’s interests and rationality
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High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group‚ Terrorist Screening Center‚ and WMD Directorate. These agencies act in unison‚ as the lead office responsible to detect‚ deter and disrupt national security threats our country. The NSB is evolving and continually refines its capabilities to deal with the ever evolving threats faces by the United States‚ and how to specifically prioritize them and plan for
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13‚ 1942 by President Franklin Roosevelt after he decided that he needed a new and different form of espionage group modeled after a British Intelligence agency. The primary reason for the OSS was to gather enemy information‚ carry out sabotage operations‚ distribute propaganda to attack the enemies and plan out special operations for different agencies. Willam J. Donovan was the head of OSS appointed by President Roosevelt‚ who soon began to recruit everyone he thought was necessary for the
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World War II world‚ and invasion from North Korea (Central Intelligence Agency: The World Factbook: South Korea‚ 2008). Yet‚ when examining the country based on Porter’s Diamond concept of Factor endowments‚ the author questions why‚ besides the political implications‚ this country was such a critical part of world history (Hill‚ 2007). South Korea’s natural resources are limited. According to a study by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)‚ South Korea has almost no natural resources
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head: METHOD OF INTELLIGENCE Method of Intelligence Gathering to Counter Terrorism NAME CJ450 – Counterterrorism Excelsior College Abstract In recent years‚ there has been much debate in the intelligence community relating to the balance between human intelligence and technical intelligence in order to satisfy states’ intelligence requirements. This paper addresses the argument from both sides‚ and suggests that there has been an over reliance on technical intelligence in recent years‚
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The Dragon Lady flew through the air at a maximum altitude of seventy-thousand feet snapping high quality photographs for the Central Intelligence Agency back in the United States. At altitudes limiting the effect of enemy air defense missiles the Dragon Lady flew mission after mission providing images of Soviet missile systems and other military apparatus. On May 1‚ 1960‚ advanced Soviet air defense missiles shot down the first Dragon Lady with its pilot‚ Francis Gary Powers‚ over Soviet territory
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The attacks on the United States on September 11‚ 2001 were the direct result of the failure of US agencies‚ ranging from the White House to airport security‚ to recognize vulnerabilities present in the various symptoms. The reason why these vulnerabilities were not acknowledged and repaired is that these various agencies were trapped in a cognitive dissonance cycle of thinking. After the Cold War‚ terrorism was seen as a regional problem (9/11 Commission‚ 92). The majority of terrorist groups
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