As the countries of the world line up into increasingly polarized political camps, the United States is facing a wide range of foreign policy issues that have assumed critical levels in recent weeks. Not only are countries in the Middle East openly defying U.S. hegemony in the region, countries in ...

The Cold War has dominated American life since 1945 . Throughout the Cold War the role of the United States has been captured in themes of globalism, anti-communism, containment, military might, and intervention . The United States has also established the role of being world mediator. It was felt b...

Why was there an escalation in the nuclear arms race in the 1950s? The nuclear arms race was a competition between the United States and the USSR to have superiority in the quantity and quality of nuclear weapons. This competition took place during the conflict between the two States in the Col...

If we were to take a moment to step back and look at the community that we are a part of, what would we see? We would see building after building making money and providing jobs, corporations contributing to our community. We would see people traveling to work everyday, which helps provide a stable ...

Maria Tidwell World Cultures III Professor Longfellow 26 November 2000 The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb On August 6th 1945, the world changed forever. The United States dropped the first Atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima, Japan. The surviving witness Miyoko Watanabe describes her e...

The United States wants to launch a pre-emptive attack on Iraq. The US alleges that Iraq possesses weapons of mass destruction with intentions to use them against the US and its allies. There is growing skepticism about America's claims and worldwide as anti-war demonstrations against any kind ...

In the early decades of the twentieth century, the world was shocked by the progression of warfare in ways that were previously unthinkable. The First World War, or The Great War, as it was called during that time, was the result of political tension between established governments of the Balkan Pe...

Atomic Diplomacy Revisted: U.S. Nuclear Security Policy, Kennen to Kissenger The emergence of the United States as a dominant party in balance of power equations is a relatively new phenomenon in world history. New military technology coupled with increased global integration has allowed the Unite...

The U.S. Federal Government should establish a foreign policy limiting the use of weapons of mass destruction by considerably increasing the funding to (1) prevent access to weapons of mass destruction by rogue states and terrorist groups; (2) prevent the use of such weapons, given access; and (3) m...

Every act of war directed to the indiscriminate destruction of whole cities or vast areas with their inhabitants is a crime against God and man. –Catechism of the Catholic Church. Since June 1940 tension had been mounting between America and Japan. The Axis Power, Germany and Italy, made ...

Can War Be Justified? St. Augustine tells the story of a pirate captured by Alexander the Great who asked him how he dared molest the sea. "How dare you molest the whole world? Because I do it with a little ship only, I am called a thief, you, doing it with a great navy, are called an E...

There have been many changes in the United States following the attacks of September 11th. In order to better understand the impact and resulting changes of the attacks, we must compare the mentality of citizens and political leaders now as well as during times of war previous to September 11th. We...

On April 12th 1945, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt died. His successor, Harry S. Truman, took hold of the American presidency and immediately had immense pressure upon his shoulders. He was briefed on the recent completion of the world's first atomic bomb, made in Los Alamos, New Mexico. ...

"War! Good God ya'll! What is it good for?! Absolutely nothing! Listen to me!" To whomever have heard the lyrics of Edwin Starr's War is likely to have had some opinion formulated about how war is a destructive force in itself. In a world where power is absolute and idolized like an omnipotent force...

What is war? Webster's Encyclopedic Dictionary describes it as: "an armed clash between nations or factions in the same nation." That's how a dictionary describes it, but in fact, it is something much worse. War is the epitome of what is wrong with human nature. War is dev...