Cold War era

RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES ARE IN THE MIDST OF MAJOR CHANGE. Historically, the research universities have been supported by the Government with two theories in mind (1) national security is important, and science and technology are critical to a strong defense and (2) human health is important. The interest in human health persists, an interest in national security persists, but the adversary has given up. The Soviet Union no longer exists. The question now is, What is the rationale for the support of universities—support in the post-Cold War era The Department of Defense, which has nurtured an important set of activities, has a role in electronics and devices, structural materials, and high-performance or advanced-performance materials. 

It was clear to me that after the cold war era, the focus of sociopolitical conflict had begun to shift towards existential issues of the survival of the human race, in view of the increasing destruction of the environment. But my ideas were obviously premature, and my project n/as only awarded 2nd place. At the time, the concept seemed too daring. 

The question remains, how do current times compare with the Cold War era It is now clear that there are people in the world willing to bring harm to civilians. Medical doctors must add new diseases to their differentials. The public now has... 

We have seen terrorism emerge as one of the thorniest problems of the post-Cold War era. We have seen that terrorists are always searching for new weapons. It may not happen immediately, but somewhere, sometime in the future, terrorists will use or attempt to use... chemical weapons. 

The disposal of low-level radioactive waste generated by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) during the Cold War era has historically involved shallow land burial in unconfined pits and trenches. The lack of physical or chemical barriers to impede waste migration has resulted in the formation of secondary contaminant sources where... 

In an ideal world (and indeed as predicted by the optimists in the euphoric days following the CWC signing ceremony in Paris in January 1993), there would have been 65 ratifications (including Russia and the United States) by July 1994, followed by a smooth transition from the Preparatory Commission to the operational Convention at an entry into force in early 1995 by the end of 1995 the OPCW would have been humming along smoothly with 160-plus States Parties the first RevCon would have been convened in early 2000 and by June 2005 the OPCW would have been approaching its tenth anniversary, and the destruction of the US and Russian CW stockpiles would have been almost completed. Everybody would have marvelled at what could be achieved in arms control and disarmament in the post-Cold War era. 

During the Cold War era, both the United States and the Soviet Union had deployed a large quantity of chemical weapons in their overseas bases. See Robert E. Harkavy, Bases Abroad The Global Foreign Military Presence (Oxford Oxford University Press, 1989), pp. 282-284. 

Having traced the history of the two smaller factory sites throughout the Cold War era, we can now examine the role of the Corsham Quarries in those unstable times. Most of the underground RSGs were completed by 1962, and at their hean was RAF Rudloe Manor (situated in the now redundant Rotor operations centre in Brown s Quarry) which... 

See, particularly, Rosenberg, Spreading the American Dream-, Frank Costigliola, France and the United States The Cold Alliance since World War II (New York, 1992,) and Matthew Connelly, A Diplomatic Revolution Algeria s Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era (Oxford, zooi). 

Connelly, Matthew James. A Diplomatic Revolution Algeria s Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era. Oxford Oxford University Press, 2001. 

Luis E. Lugo, Sovereignty at the Crossroads Morality and International Politics in the Post-Cold War Era (Lantham, MD Rowman and Littlefield, 1996). 

Ved P. Nanda, Revisiting Self-determination as an International Law Concept A Major Challenge in the Post-Cold War Era , 3 USA Journal of Internatimal and Comparative Law (1997). 

A variety of detection devices and other chemical warfare agent defense equipment have been developed for specific military applications. Most of the effort in this area resulted from the perceived threat during the Cold War era and although this threat has decreased dramatically, interest in chemical detection equipment persists because of worldwide chemical weapons proliferation. During the 1990-91 Iraq War chemical detection equipment was deployed into the... 

Bums, Richard Dean. The Missile Defense Systems of George W. Bush A Critical Assessment. Santa Barbara, Calif. Praeger, 2010. A critical look at the fiscal and political costs to deploy a ground-based ABM system and the effects of trying to extend it to Europe. Denoon, David. Ballistic Missile Defense in the Post-Cold War Era. Boulder, Colo. Westview Press, 1995. An overview of various proposed ABM systems along with ways to judge if they would be worth the expense of constructing them. 

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