... In late August of 1949 the first Soviet atomic bomb test is exploded in Kazakhstan. This shows the progress of the Soviets in their nuclear technology, comparable to the Americans, whom are more advanced at this moment. On January 31st of the next year, 1950, President Truman states his ... Union when it was surprised by a surface-to-air missile. The pilot was taken prisoner and the plane was dismantled for help in developing Soviet technology. Replacing the U-2 in the late 1960s was the SR-71, a spy plane that flew higher and faster than any missile. Officially, the ... , as photographic...

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... the computarization of knowledge, have drastically affected production process; enabling large enterprises to move capital and labor at lower cost and at vastly increased speed. It is the scientific and technological revolution, especially since the middle of the twenteeth century, that has made communication universal, transport supersonic, information instantaneous and modern weaponary interplanetary"(5). Paradoxially, technical ... innovations which occur within the territorrial boundaries, once thay fully developod, give rise to movements that state cannot effectively control. For ex...

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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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... forward in the past few years. But the need for catching up with the western state was enormous. They had to speed up with the technology, industry and the agricultural sector, and also with the scientific and technological development. But also the west was steadily moving forward with their economy and so it seemed difficult to catch up with the west and ... next one, Brezhnev, was challenged with those problems. Only one technological development showed the rest of the world that the Soviet Union is still alive and trying to improve its technology, this was in the early 1960s when th...

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... pos sibly, nearly wipe out the human race. Another reason for allowing the development of weapons of mass destruction for the use of the UN is that it allowed great scientific breakthroughs. Vaccines for some forms or malaria were actually the result of testing for biological warfare. With the threat of the spread of disease by a biological weapon, many nations, specifically ... as Russia did. We still need this development to keep the threat of destruction to stop war, keep a balance of power and continue our scientific progress. Humanity is always growing and expanding and with it, so...

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... Europe and the Soviet Union marked the end of the cold war. The U.S. long-term policy of containing Soviet expansion while encouraging democratic reform in Central and Eastern Europe through scientific and cultural exchanges, information policy, and the United States' own example, provided invaluable support to the peoples of East Central Europe in their struggle for freedom. The forces responsible for ... deliver on its promises. The Soviet economy had long-term problems because of its lack of integration into the world economy, in particular it had fallen behind in areas of technology...

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... the dawn of the nuclear age, and with it came more than just the loss of lives. According to Archibald MacLeish, a U.S. poet, "What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough . . . had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science ... peace since World War II, namely, the Soviet Union. But even during the much-decried "arms race" of the Cold War years, both East and West refined their crude nuclear technology to suit the requirements of waging war, e.g. ta...

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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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