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This buildup produced a balance of nuclear forces approximately as shown in table 2. 372 Chapter Ten Table 2. Nuclear Weapons 19 ...
The Arms Race and Command Economies since 1945 373 New models of old weapons with improved performance capa bilities were distu ...
374 Chapter Ten Table 3. Military Expenditures at Constant Prices (In billions, 1978 dollars) 1950 1955 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 ...
The Arms Race and Command Economies since 1945 375 curred in a world where nuclear proliferation remained both a possi bility a ...
376 Chapter Te n fered no solution, short of all-out attack on the north, or a level of destruction in the south that would have ...
The Arms Race and Command Economies since 1945 377 tion, making a once revolutionary party and radically disruptive unions into ...
378 Chapter Te n Khrushchev’s notorious secret denunciation of Stalin in 1956 un leashed previously pent-up criticism among mem ...
The Arms Race and Command Economies since 1945 weaponry in the hands of police and soldiers exercises an ultimate veto on intern ...
380 Chapter Ten to the very foundation of Islam, made it easy to attack foreign in fluence and corruption and rally mass follow ...
The Arms Race and Command Economies since 1945 381 enemies.^19 Whether better-organized repression will suffice to prop up exist ...
382 Chapter Ten Europe and the USSR is sufficiently delicate to require very careful management. But the problem does not threat ...
The Arms Race and Command Economies since 1945 383 Routine and ritual constitute the standard substitute for faith of the incand ...
384 Chapter Ten from arming themselves so elaborately as to endanger the sovereign’s easy superiority. War in such a world would ...
Conclusion Understanding current affairs re quires a bold imaginative effort. Amidst a plethora of data, one must somehow decid ...
386 Conclusion market came into its own, regulating the working lives of millions and hundreds of millions of human beings throu ...
Conclusion 387 expectation and reality, if only by encouraging us to expect surprises —among them, a breakdown of the pattern of ...
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Index Abbas, Shah, 95 Achaemenid Empire, 3, 16 Adams, R. J. Q., 326 Admiralty, British, 182, 225–26, 269, 272, 274, 275–97, 357 ...
390 Index Spanish, 91–94, 107–8, 110; steppe, 15–16, 58–60; Swedish, 122–23; U.S., 165, 232, 255, 343, 344, 375 Armor, personal, ...
Index 391 Belgium, 187, 194, 195, 197, 198, 213, 235, 305, 306, 328. See also Low Coun tries Bell, A. C, 323 Bence-Jones, M., 1 ...
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