... what the Cold War actually means. The term "Cold War" means a war fought on every front except actual fighting. This includes propaganda, war of words and threats. Each side stockpiles weapons and forces, which it hopes to never use but are a good asset in the war of words and threats. A real war between them could have meant colossal destruction of each ... predecessor. In August 1945, America dropped the world's first nuclear weapon on Hiroshima in Japan. The bomb had catastrophic effects on anything in its path and showed the world the deadly and devastating effects this weapon could...

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... on either territory. Each state had its ideological mission, its networks of alliances and third war clients, and its deadly arsenal of nuclear weapons. The Cold War has brought around all the new kinds of weapons, propaganda and a permanent threat of use of the weapons of mass distraction, several so called, "proxy wars" took place, where the rivalry between capitalists and communists resulted in ... ...

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... is that there were many human rights were violated As many innocent civilians lives were brutally taken by the hands of U.S soldiers and by the use of extremely powerful chemical weapons that were used in Vietnam against international law such as the Geneva contract. But before I continue with this point I must say that I understand that our soldiers were fighting a war, which ... its victims. Napalm was even weaponized into flamethrowers and air bombs making them much more powerful and gruesome. Now imagine innocent civilians including women and children being hit with this deadly subs...

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... Hiroshima, Japan. The explosive power of the weapon was finally displayed. Within a few days, another bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. The atomic bomb was one of the most destructive weapons of war used in combat. It ended the Second World War. However, the bomb's used turned out to be a big controversy. President Harry Truman had many good reasons of dropping ... such a deadly bomb, but some people thought we shouldn't have ended the war like we did. President Truman decided to put many years of nuclear warfare research to use when he choose ... ...

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