... set at the ready to unleash, at the push of a button, the total destruction of Americas enemies and the inevitable end the world. But, even with this threat fading into history with the fall of the once grand Soviet Union, this book looks back at what then, could have been, and now what once might have been. Now the next few ... 's family, war breaks out. With in a short time most of the major cities in the United States Are little more than Mushroom clouds in the mourning sky and the entire Russian mainland has been obliterated. Leaving many of the small towns like Fort Repose completel...

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• Grade Level: High School

... Quemoy and Matsu. They don't just want Formosa (Taiwan). They want the world" - Statement from Richard Nixon in 1960's Kennedy-Nixon President TV debates in Waugh,S., (2001), Essential Modern World History, Thomas Nelson: UK Yet if the US were to try and contain China, it would need the support of at least some South East Asian states. It is because of ... the national territory from foreign annexation or intrusion; (b) To regain what had been lost through foreign interventions; (c) To repel from her borders any threatening or hostile military presence, be it Russian, Japanese, America ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... he received a most unusual message. 'Babies satisfactorily born,' the coded message read. Those three words spelled the beginning of the Atomic age. Now a weapon, more devastating than any other in history, was available for use against the Japanese (Collins, 1988, p.75). Military advisers had told Truman that a potential loss of about 500,000 American soldiers could be avoided if the bomb ... - which it probably was. But as the weeks wore on and tons of supplies continued to pour daily into Berlin, it became an act of defiance and of calling the Russian bluff (Phillips, 1966, p. 250). ...

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