... certainly be a cause for concern, maybe the question we need to start asking is "Why?". From a realist's perspective, any state with a nuclear weapon is a threatens the "vital interest" of the United States. In context of the realist paradigm, Snow (2011) defines a vital interest as " ... several conflicts in the Persian Gulf area between the two states. This included the mining of a US ship, followed by a the firing upon Iranian oil ships and platforms by the US Navy, and one incident when a US ship accidentally shot down a Iranian passenger jet killing over 200 civilians by mistaking ....

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... of free elections, the Soviets put a pro Soviet puppet government in Warsaw. In 1940 Soviet foreign minister Molotov told Nazi leaders that Iran, rich in oil and a gateway to the Persian Gulf was a major target of Soviet aspiration. During World War II Britain and Russia held control of Iran. The agreement ... defeat. Soviet troops remained though into 1946 while Stalin was trying to force from Tehran and agreement for the Soviets and Iranians to jointly explore for oil in northern Iran. The Soviets refusal to leave Iran was a major security threat to the West, and convinced Truman even ...

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... weapons scientist, says "they [nuclear weapons] are not policy weapons but...are themselves a supreme expression of the concepts of total war" (Gilpin 77). Nuclear weapons are considered the most powerful weapon ever invented. The hydrogen bomb was to be vastly more powerful than the atomic bomb. The idea was to add about 12 kilograms of liquid heavy hydrogen to the ordinary ... a major role in U.S. intelligence collection capabilities. This gave the U.S. an advantage in plots involving the Soviet Union. The CIA assessments on the Soviet Military provided an early warning of new weapon ...

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... lottery. An aggressive president who does not hesitate to go into war is the ideal choice for the MIC. The MIC thrives on war, seeing it as "business", every time a weapon has to be replaced the MIC gets richer, and the taxpayer gets poorer. The MIC couldn't care less about Americans dying in war as long as the cash is flowing ... business, he angered them by obliging steel manufacturers to reverse price increases, as well as introducing a tax-reform legislation that would end unfair tax practices and would abolish the profitable oil reduction allowance. International bankers were quite...

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... are alienating ourselves from even our closest allies due to our new policy on self-defense. Bush has basically claimed the right to attack any foreign nation that has threatening weapon systems or any policy deemed hostile. This seems to undermine the decades of effort to structure the international law, most of which was written by the US. Howard does not ... chemical weapons on his own citizens, refuses to allow anyone to check on his inventory of such illegal weapons, funds terrorist groups, and is constantly trying to hoard/destroy the oil reserves in his region in order to disrupt...

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... free, they were no longer under foreign control. Most Cubans supported Castro. 75% of farmland was owned by foreigners as well as most Companies and 2 million acres of land, the oil refineries and electricity companies were also under USA control. Most Cuban professionals saw Castro as a menace. Thousands of doctors, lawyers and businessmen fled to Florida hoping one day to return ... than he ever anticipated. The defences inside Cuba would have been left with no choice other than to use the battlefield nuclear weapons in it's possession. Once the first nuclear weapon had been firex, th...

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... . In addition, "precision weapons could be used to seal these facilities, and thermo baric vacuum bombs that kill the occupants." A second useful tactic they offered is the consideration of a penetrating weapon already in use by the U.S. arsenal called BLU-116. A "smart fuse" is in development that will "allow the warhead to detonate at a very precise depth," escalating it's efficiency on bunkers ... like Saddam's. Levi and Hitchens" third suggestion is known as Deep Digger. While it maintains the appearance of a conventional missile, it will operate on "principles of dry drilling used i...

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