TRN410H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: List Of States With Nuclear Weapons, Nikita Khrushchev, Space Race
30 Apr 2016
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Beginning to see a sense of limits. Nuclear parity between super powers and mad. Brinksmanship is no longer an option without absolute destruction. Nuclear club is in the process of expanding. Era of unprecedented american hegemony is beginning to fade. No longer the degree of sway it had. Decline of the bretton woods economic system. China returning to international community as major economic power. Threads mostly on the left but some on the political right. Placing the origins of the neo-conservative origin. Emergence of terrorism becoming a political issue. Radicalized left student rebel groups that espouse violence as a way to further their objectives. Terrorism coming out of the middle east and primarily concerning politics not reli- gion. People thought it would disappear as a force. Evangelicalism reagan, carter and george w. bush. Ideas from the east are imported and mainstreamed into the west and vice-versa. Rises to greater prominence after the holocaust and all other atrocities post-wwii.
