SOC 2390 Lecture Notes - Mutual Assured Destruction, Aarp

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2390
• Professor: Michael A Dixon

Document Summary

The existence of lobbyists does not ensure that the national interest will be served or that the concerns of all groups will be heard. Compared to other industrialized countries, voter turnout rates in the u. s. are the lowest. Indeed, in its short history, the united states has been involved in ten large-scale wars and many more minor conflicts (e. g. , those in grenada, panama, In the twentieth century, weapons have become very lethal: machine guns replaced single-shot rifles; new kinds of chemical weapons and explosive bombs have been developed; and missiles can rain death and destruction on entire cities. Such armaments are called weapons of mass destruction because they have the destructive capacity to kill many thousands of people at one time. The proliferation and control of nuclear weapons: in the 1960s, the united states and the soviet union led the world in an arms race, each competing to build a more powerful military arsenal than its adversary.