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continuing their development in nuclear weapons in 2006, 2009, 2013. Yet despite this, on Monday March 14, 2016, DPRK Today reported that a fifth test would be run and a new test involving ballistic missiles would also be included. Mr. Jongun had explained that the reason his country is now involving ballistic missiles is “. . . [so that] the warheads [are able] to survive heat and turbulence

What were the main causes of the post-war nuclear arms race? The post World War Two nuclear arms race can arguably be seen as the defining event of the Cold War. For the first time in history a weapon had been created that had the potential to end humanity as we knew it, a weapon with such power that one single use could decisively change the course of war and reduce a potent enemy to an impotent conquest. Yet it is because of the magnitude and influence of this weapon that the nuclear arms race

In order to maintain peace and stability in the world, there must be a balance of power between countries. The Nuclear Arms Race was started because there wasn 't a balance of power after World War II. The U.S. was the only country at that time which possessed nuclear weapons. Russia, fearing a United States domination of world power, developed a nuclear bomb of its own. Thus started the Arms Race, in which both countries attempted to gain the upper hand in terms of the number of nuclear warheads

The article, “Race to the Future. How America’s missile defense initiative blossomed into an international coalition,” was featured in The American Legion, a center-right publication, in August of 2015. The author of the piece is Alan Dowd. Dowd is a frequent author and head of the Center for America’s Purpose, a center-right organization. Regarding the critical eye, the article is accurate with a few pieces of misleading information. Throughout the article numerous solutions are presented and a

Nuclear weapons are the most deadly, destructive, and powerful form of technology that the world has ever created. Officially, only 9 states out of 196 in the international arena have possession of them. Although nuclear weapons are being eliminated by states, they still hold a significant value for nations in the IR arena with a nuclear annihilation capacity. States within the international community that own nuclear arsenals are automatically feared and respected because of the status symbol they

military objectives…should be the destruction of the enemy’s military forces, not of his civilian population.” With traditional weapons, the enemy army generally has to fight its way through the defending army before accessing civilians. Nuclear missiles eliminate this intermediate step, allowing a hostile body to quickly destroy a great amount of civilian life without engaging the other army. McNamara advocated a kind of limited war that

Even North Korea did have the capability to miniaturize a nuclear bomb, their ballistic missiles do not have the capability to reach mainland United States. Nonetheless, North Korea does have additional missiles in development (North Korean Ballistic Missile Models, 2016). The following paragraph states that the North Koreans have “made significant progress with solid-fuel rockets” (Krauthammer, 2017). According to

programs and continues to develop its nuclear program to the extent that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) conducted its fifth nuclear test. Experts warn that DPRK can reach its capacity to complete its Inter-Continental Ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and target the U.S. by 2020. Under these circumstances, can any policy recommendations be drawn from the precedents regarding Libya? Three authors, Malfrid Braut-Hegghammer, Dafna Hochman and Peter Viggo Jakobsen have written

Cyberwarfare is to cyber attacks as nuclear war is to nuclear missiles; an exchange between two nations in an attempt for one to damage another. Cyber attacks come in two main forms: espionage and sabotage. In an espionage operation, the objective is to gain intelligence on strategic resources. For example, imagine a country hacking into a communication network to survey enemy troop movements or electronically stealing the blueprints for a missile. The other kind, sabotage, is much more direct. In this

North Korean Missile Launching: Other Countries’ Reactions: An Annotated Bibliography By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated, Press. North Korean Missile Test May Have Been Big Step Forward. AP Top News Package, Associated Press DBA Press Association, 02/13/2017 North Korea’s dictator, Kim Jong Un, says the missile fired is a new nuclear weapon in progress. North Korean rockets depended on liquid fuel, technology from the mid 1900’s, until now. The current videos of the missile launching shows that the