TITLE Terrorism is nothing new to this world‚ but in the twentieth century‚ a new and more potentially dangerous form of terrorism was introduced‚ bioterrorism. This is the act of terrorism by biologically altering and releasing a disease into the world‚ causing mass panic and possibly death among people. Not many people in this world know how easily a biological disease can be released into a population of people. Informing the public but mainly public officials could help prevent a bioterrorist
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States and the USSR after World War 2 is known as the cold war and consisted of many events such as; The Yalta and Potsdam Conferences‚ the Iron Curtain‚ division of Germany and the Berlin‚ Korean War‚ Nuclear Arms and Space Races‚ U2 Crisis‚ Cuban Missile Crisis‚ Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan(Clair). The Witch Trials on the other hand were mostly defined when no one had answers why 2 girls were having “convulsive seizures‚ blasphemous screaming‚ and trance like states” so they assumed that
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dismissed possibilities for peaceful resolution of the Cold War conflict‚ which would have left the “political threat" intact. In his history of nuclear weapons‚ McGeorge Bundy writes that he is "aware of no serious contemporary proposal...that ballistic missiles should somehow be banned by agreement before they were ever deployed‚" even though these were the only potential military threat to the US. It was always the "political" threat
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example to back up my opinion would be the Cuban missile crisis; this was a 13-day confrontation in October 1962 between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other side. The crisis is generally regarded as the moment in which the Cold War came closest to turning into a nuclear conflict. The soviets in an attempt to combat the USA’s nuclear missile sites in turkey (which was in range of the USSR) placed nuclear missiles on the island of Cuba which was only a few miles
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force Directorate he got a chance to realise his dream. He joined the Indian Committee for Space Research (INCOSPAR)‚ the predecessor of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). And thus Kalam started his much talked about career in rocket and missile technology. It is his greatness that to support his studies‚ he started his career as a newspaper vendor. Before he became President of the country‚ Dr. Kalam had divided his career in four phases. In the first phase (1963-82) he worked with
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include secondary distant fractures‚ caused by propagation of the shock wave‚ and avascular necrosis‚ caused by damage to the intimal lining of blood vessels. Low-velocity missile injuries are completely different‚ because these projectiles possess only about one-third of the kinetic energy of high-velocity projectiles. Such missiles generally cause penetrating injuries‚ which lead to multiple fractures and skin lacerations and rarely cause tissue
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The Paul C. Warnke Conference on the Past‚ Present & Future of Arms Control January 28‚ 2004 Georgetown University Washington‚ D.C. Arms Control Association Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service Center for Peace and Security Studies 1 PROCEEDINGS OF THE PAUL C. WARNKE CONFERENCE ON THE PAST‚ PRESENT & FUTURE OF ARMS CONTROL ANUARY AT GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY‚ WASHINGTON‚ DC‚ JANUARY 28‚ 2004 Sponsored by the Arms Control Association‚ Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service‚ and
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United States Foreign Policy towards Nuclear Proliferation In a joint statement made by President George W. Bush‚ European Council President Konstandinos Simitis and European Commissioner President Romano Prodi regarding the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) stated: “Proliferation of WMDs and their delivery systems constitutes a major threat to international peace and security. The threat is compounded by the interest of terrorists in acquiring WMD. This would undermine
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Osama bin Laden and Cuban Revolution The reading “Challenges to the Cold War II: The Cuban Revolution and the Cuban Missile Crisis” told that in 1959‚ Cuba experienced an upheaval. Before that‚ Cuba was a colony of Spain until 1898. Then it became independent with the American’s assistance. As a result‚ American power replaced over the Spanish rule. Following that‚ for decades‚ Cuba became a tourist playground of rich Americans. This became an incentive for the organized crime groups to use Cuba
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Kennedy decided to confront Moscow during the Cuban Missile Crises on October 1962. Nikita Khrushchev (Soviet leader) thought that he could threaten President Kennedy into making political concessions in Europe due to the fact that he became too confident after the United State’s embarrassing loss over the Bay of Pigs episode in Cuba in 1961. Here‚ overconfidence killed the cat. Nikita Khrushchev threats failed and he had to withdraw his missiles from Cuba. A period of détente began in U.S.-Soviet
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