... but not necessarily their people. Great powers are inevitably balanced against. While such a statement held just as much validity following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the source and ease with which such a counterbalance could emerge was largely overlooked. Certainly China, and possibly even Russia may one day be able to challenge the economic and conventional military might of ... the failure to recognize and inability to deal with such threats in the context of current military policy and tactics. When one extremist can plant a dirty bomb at little cost and with relative ease in...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... of success as they employed a range of methods to limit communist control, including the formation of alliances, the threat of nuclear weapons or other military force, covert military opposition, efforts at diplomacy and cooperation, and confrontation with the Soviets. The U.S. had traditionally been reluctant to involve itself in world affairs; this isolationist policy began to disappear after the war, when it ... , during his years in office to account for the Soviet test of such a missile in 1957. Nixon began his presidency with the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, which was designed ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... took another look and decided that there was certainly nothing insignificant about Stalin. She knew it would be hard to loosen him up and make him at ease. During their meeting, a lucky accident occurred. As Margaret knelt to take a picture from a low angle, shooting upward, her pocketful of peanut ... to name it, thinking it would discourage her. Instead, he prescribed exercises to help her retain whatever strength she had left in her muscles. At Life, she kept her sickness secret for fear of not receiving any more assignments. Finally, she discovered the name of her illness-Parkinson's...

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• Grade Level: High School