POL101Y1 Lecture : Cold War Realism
13 Dec 2010
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west berlin/ east berlin (checkpoints open to germany only, checkpoints open to. mannu: data on nuclear weapons means of devlieery (missles, us superiority 1949-1968: mutually assured destruction (mad). Total number of nuclear missile built, 1951-present: 67,500. Total number of nuclear bombs built, 1945-present: 4,650. peak number of nuclear warheads and bombs in the stockpile/year: 32,193 (1966) number of attack (ssn) and ballistic missile (ssbn) submarines (2002): 53 ssns and 188 ssbns. number of attack: (ssn) and ballistic missile (ssns) submarines (2002); 29 ssns. Total number of nuclear missiles built, 1951-1989: approx. Total number of nuclear bombers built: 1945-1989, approx. 34, 000 and 9 ssbnss. Ideas and ideals and the handmaidens of interest. security dilemma: the world is anarchic, no overarching authority. each state must rely on itself it is a hobbesian world (nasty, brutish, short)
