He believed that the fluoridation of drinking water was a communist conspiracy that it needed to be destroyed to stop the communist advance in America. He was the one who sent hydrogen bombs to take out the USSR. One major theme that is satirized is the idea of nationalism. There is a sense of political nationalism and have intense disdain and distrust in the enemy. When the crew on of B-52 was flying to drop hydrogen bombs in the USSR, the crew’s leader, Major T.J. Kong’s prep talk was extremely nationalist.
During this time not only was the Great Depression inspiring widespread fear in the citizens of the United States, but the development and growth in weapons of mass destruction, such as the atomic bomb. On May 1982, Vonnegut stood in front of a large group of people at St. John the Divine and delivered this speech in response. His view on death comes off as very in-sensitive as he makes it clear that he believes it is all the same to him “Scientists, for all their creativity, will never discover a method for making people deader than dead. . .dead is dead” (Vonnegut).
The idea behind is to tell that some albanian terrorists tried to smuggle an atomic bomb into the United States, through the Canadian border and as nobody really knows what is going on in a small country somewhere in-between Europe and Asia, which such a rich war history, people start to believe what they see. Through many stage managed stories the spin doctors in the movie manage to make the population believe the war and to create a huge wave of patriotism. In order to that everybody now stands behind the president, even though his relation ship to an underaged girl. Even when the CIA discovers the plan and “ends” the war through the opposite party, the spin doctors invent a hero which was left behind and is now to be saved. The whole country again believes it.
Hitler, Stalin, and the Bomb Hitler and Stalin both share the dubious distinction of being two of the most destructive figures throughout all of history. The atrocities committed between the two of them against innocent people runs up into the millions. With Hitler, his rage was derived from his disdain to any Jewish person around believe that they truly were inferior to him. Stalin had a deep fear of people rising up against him and killed a mass amount of his own people just to suppress that fear that the people in his country might soon rebel against him. During the time period in which their reigns each occurred, nuclear science was starting to make some of its biggest discoveries in history.
During the Harry Truman presidency there were many impacts on the American and Soviet relations because of the atomic weapons, the Marshall Plan or the Berlin Blockade. The United States pushed the Soviet empire to its knees and won the Cold War. No, the USSR collapsed of its own rotting weight, and Japan won the Cold War. Option three: A brilliant Kremlin leader, besieged at home and long misunderstood abroad, perceived the irrelevance of superpower military competition to the overarching new challenges of global security and engineered a strategic retreat toward sanity in East-West relations. The deterioration of relations within the Grand Alliance led to the undeclared conflict known as the Cold War.
The entire world changed after the dropping of the atomic bomb on the Japanese islands of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It created a mass hysteria considering that now the world could be destroyed from the use of these awesome bombs. As the United States gradually slipped into the Cold War with the Soviet Union, people hoped that some ethical codes instilled within us all would prevent the obliteration of the earth by use of atomic bombs. Though the power of the atomic bomb has not been unleashed upon another civilization since Nagasaki, the hope that an ethical code can regulate interactions throughout all regions, states, and nations is erroneous. Blackburn, in his short introduction to ethics through the book “Being Good”, gives seven threats to ethics that denounces the ability to regulate interactions ethically.
Rational Choice Theory in “Fail Safe” In the movie “Fail Safe” the President of United States of America meets issues that create security dilemma between two nations where he has to make certain hypothesis, assumptions, and correct decisions that will be consequential to the United States as country as well as a nation. Being at the state of Cold War, United States and Soviet Union were trying to avoid and prevent limited war that would lead to Mutual Assured Destruction of two nations. However, due to technological failure one of the USA bombers gets false signal to bomb Moscow with two by twenty megaton bombs and US cannot reach the bombers because Soviet Union was jamming US radio system. As the Commander Chief of United States of America, the President has to deal with Rational Choice Theory to stop the bombing of Moscow. He has to make assumptions why all this happened, what should be done to stop Group Six from accomplishing their mission, and if the bombers will not be stopped and the bombs will be dropped what should be done to even the situation.
Explain how the Cold war started by 1947. America was capitalist and The Soviet Union was capitalist, America and Russia were against each other as they were both trying to prove that their way of living was better. The tried to outdo each other in a variety of ways including: Getting to the moon first, having the best athletes in the Olympics and spy’s etc… However there was one thing that they both against Hitler and Germany, they became alliances (with Britain) and worked together to try to demolish and weaken Germany. They first met in 1943 in Iran- they meted here because they couldn’t meet in Germany, as it was them that they were planning to attack meaning they couldn’t afford to let anybody overhear and hint to Germany that they were plotting certain things that Hitler wouldn’t like. This gathering was called the Teheran conference.
The Soviets broke the US nuclear monopoly, and that struck fear into all americans, there is now someone just as dangerous as you are. ”Here’s my strategy of the cold war: we win, they lose.”1 Leading conflicts lead Truman to develop a “super bomb” 1000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb. With both sides power building, leaders realized, if this war was to happen there would be no victor, just total mass devastation for both parties. Peace was impossible, war improbable. 1 ― Ronald Reagan, U.S.S.R. U.S.A.
Later that year in Potsdam, many open disagreements took place because Germany had lost the war so Russia had promised to fulfil, Churchill had lost the 1945 election and Roosevelt died so Truman, who replaced him was angered by the large scale reparations imposed on Germany and the setting up of a communist government in Poland. He did not trust Russia, so kept him in the dark about him having the atomic bomb in 1945 before he dropped it on Japan to get them to surrender. By America using the atomic bomb, Stalin knew that it was possible for it to be used against them. Russia was therefore tricked by America preventing the Red Army from going to Japan. This threatened Russia and warned them that America was wary of them and could act on it.