The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000About national and international power in the "modern" or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen over the 5 centuries since the formation of the "new monarchies" in W. Europe. |
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Page 370
... weapon had been only a passing phase.82 The coming of atomic weapons transformed the " strategical land- scape , " since they gave to any state possessing them the capability of mass indiscriminate destruction , even of mankind itself ...
... weapon had been only a passing phase.82 The coming of atomic weapons transformed the " strategical land- scape , " since they gave to any state possessing them the capability of mass indiscriminate destruction , even of mankind itself ...
Page 450
... weapons . All this is backed up by large - scale atomic re- search , and by a refusal to have its nuclear weapons development " frozen " by international limitations agreements , since that would merely aid the existing Great Powers ...
... weapons . All this is backed up by large - scale atomic re- search , and by a refusal to have its nuclear weapons development " frozen " by international limitations agreements , since that would merely aid the existing Great Powers ...
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... weapons might indeed be used , as part of a national strategy ; and who therefore devote their intellectual energies to an intensive study of the respective weapon systems , of escalation strategies and war - gaming , of the pros and ...
... weapons might indeed be used , as part of a national strategy ; and who therefore devote their intellectual energies to an intensive study of the respective weapon systems , of escalation strategies and war - gaming , of the pros and ...
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The Political Divisions of Europe in the Sixteenth Century | 18 |
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