... equipment manufacturers and Individuals. Russia has a couple comparative advantages in IT. For one, Russia has a large technological research infrastructure. For years, technological institutions and universities have produced technology for the military. Secondly, although Russia has a large uneducated rural population, there is a highly educated work force in Russia to support IT modernization. In order to utilize these ... advantages, institutions of higher learning must adapt pure scientific research to market-oriented efforts. Some of the strengths of Russia's IT include, the gover...

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... to the old "us and them" theory. It is no longer a fight between the communist and capitalist societies. While more nations have the technology to make nuclear warheads, many do not due to political pressure. The most common reason for the development of nuclear warheads is to prove a ... said nation's ability to do so. For example, South Africa developed the technology to produce nuclear missiles, and then dismantled them. (1) In doing so it became the first nation to voluntarily giving up its nuclear missiles. ... to track and stop smuggling has increased. A new Stanford database has...

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... . During the late 1960's and early 70's America was opening its eyes and broadening our knowledge in technology and space. History changed when the Russians created Sputnik. Sputnik was the first satellite that could orbit the earth. This initiated new political, military, technological, and scientific developments in Russia. In addition, the public feared that the Soviets' ability to launch satellites also translated ... to orbit the earth. The safety of America's "well being" was at stake. NASA hurried to produce and construct something of a greater awe, to show that United States had ...

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... afraid they would not ever again if they had to invade Japan's mainland. Americans were not willing to sacrifice more lives to end this war. They felt that the developed technology should be used. Creating the atomic bomb had been a long and hard task. It had taken many years of planning, developing, and testing. The making of the bomb combined theories ... for its use was that it was a plutonium bomb whereas the one dropped on Hiroshima was filled with uranium. He posed the question, 'were the victims of Nagasaki part of a scientific experiment?' The Japanese people felt afterwards tha...

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... doesn't seem like a huge deal, it was. If the Soviets could launch a satellite into space, that meant that they had the capability of Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles, (ICBM's). With this technology, the Soviets could launch a rocket with a nuclear warhead equipped, and send it off across the ocean to hit the U.S. Going faster than any airplane or jet could go, there would ... times more than what America was attempting to put into space at that time. The Sputnik II weighed around 1,100 pounds, and carried a dog named Laika, along with some advanced scientific equipment. Laika survi...

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