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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Nuclear warfare."”.
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Bondmania: Spy Films, American Foreign Policy, and the New Frontier of the 1960s
… which favored elite strike forces rather than nuclear warfare as a way to address conflicts during the Cold War. Domestically, magazines from <em>Life</em> to <em>Playboy, </em>promoted the idea of the “Bond lifestyle,” and the perceived benefits that came from modeling one’s life after a …
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Liminal heritage and political transition in Burma/Myanmar since 1824
… problems that plague us, from the threat of nuclear warfare to the climate crisis. Infused with powers of annihilation, these crises suspend whole societies in uncertainty, requiring that we learn to live life in the transitional (Horváth, Thomassen, and Wydra 2017). Such extraordinary …
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Spontaneous Minds and Electric Romanticism: Kerouac, Ginsberg, Dylan, Joplin
… age in wartime that they protested (e.g. nuclear warfare). Dylan’s electric gesture of protest not only achieved the spontaneous, but also redefined what spontaneity in terms of Romanticism looked like in twentieth-century America: the visionary poetic mode modernized for an electric, …
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The most dangerous game : a phenomenological criticism of the rhetoric of nuclear war, 1945-1981.
… policy rhetors in the specific instance of nuclear diplomacy rhetoric. This group of speeches is argued to be particularly rich in such appeals for two primary reasons. First, the nature of nuclear conflict is such that Presidents will seek acceptance of their policies without meaningful …
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The United States Information Agency and Italy during the Johnson Presidency 1963-1969
… World War II and the unthinkable implications of nuclear warfare, the bipolar conflict was progressively channelled into non-military means of combat. In addition to the better known methods of traditional diplomacy, the threat of force, and economic aid, the United States deployed new instruments …
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The Dilemma of Existence in the Nuclear Age: Four Views
The problem. The United States' use of the atom bomb in 1945 marks the beginning of a definite trend in American literature. Since that time, many writers have dealt with the questions of man's purpose and position in the universe and the existence and nature of God. Procedure. The introduction of …
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United States Deterrance Policy in the 1960's: Members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Publicly Speak Out
… relied mainly on the retaining of a strategic nuclear force capable of surviving a nuclear attack with enough counter force to destroy the aggressor. During that decade members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff also stressed that conventional non-nuclear war was more likely to come about than …