Preserve, Protect, and Defend: Nuclear Threat, The
greater concern is the fact that there is poor security for the nuclear stock piles once held by the Soviet Union. A third cause of concern is that the
Transcript: novel... [lindsay:] the soviet union had really poor security For it's nuclear stock piles, Even terrible accounting programs. And our great fear is that
Operation Whitecoat
by participating in U. S. Army medical experiments focused on developing defensive medical countermeasures against the Soviet Union’s bio
Excelsior, May 7, 1990
, students also protested against the Soviet Union via a flag desecration, and CUNY passed a "Forgiveness Clause" that would only compute the highest grade a
The complete history of the United States' wars, 1700-2004: the Cold War
the two main combatants, the United States and the Soviet Union. This was because direct confrontation with atomic weapons would have led to the total
Other America, The: Eisenhower Seeks Nonmilitary Solutions in Cold War Crises
President Eisenhower seeks a nonmilitary solution in the struggle between the People's Republic of China and Taiwan in the Formosa Straits, and does not get involved in the Hungarian Revolution. Eisenhower's efforts to keep the peace sometimes puts ...
Transcript: west look very bad In the eyes of the arab world And the non-aligned world generally. Also it happened just at the time The soviet union crushed the
Collapse of Peace, The: Containment Doctrine, The
A new American doctrine is slowly emerging. Rather than attempting to create a unified, "open" world, the United States and its allies will work to contain threat of further Soviet expansion, first by political and economic measures then later throu...
Transcript: policy, first and foremost, Should be about containing or stopping The spread of communism, Particularly the soviet union.
Fallout: Sources of the Red Scare
The Korean War strengthens anti-communist fervor within U.S. The two greatest anti-radical movements in U.S. history occur at end of the two world wars, some of the ideological excesses of wartime spilling over into the post war period. After World ...
Transcript: , The fear of the soviet union, The fear of a second great power in the world Threatening the united states, Threatening the stability of the world
United States and Russia During the Cold War, The
Television news correspondent, presidential advisor and university professor Marvin Kalb talks about U.S. attitudes towards Russia during the Cold War. "Did we give the Russians a fair shake? Yes, in a strategic sense but, in a cultural sense, not a...
Transcript: facts That are very negative as they relate not only To the soviet union but the threat to the united states. And there is no question, in my view, That
Diplomacy (Part Two)
Former Secretary of State James A. Baker talks about the delicate negotiations he conducted with Eduard Schevardnadze, foreign minister of the Soviet
Other America, The: Eisenhower's Use of Covert Action to Accomplish U.S. Aims
The agreement ending hostilities in Korea is signed. Eisenhower feels that covert actions using the CIA is a better way to project American influence than military confrontations. The CIA overthrows the Prime Minister of Iran in 1953 because it is b...
Transcript: the soviet union or communist powers Was impossible? Eisenhower thought that covert actions, Clandestine actions, using the c. I. A. , Would be a much