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The volume collects the proceedings of the conference "Firenze e la lingua italiana tra nazione ed Europa" (Florence and the Italian language between nation and Europe), which was held from on May 27 and 28 2004 in the Aula Magna of the University of Florence and the Accademia della Crusca. As known, Florence played a central role in the process of national linguistic unification and thanks to its international vocation the city has promoted the spread and knowledge of the Italian language and culture all over Europe and in the world. Beyond any celebratory enthusiasm, the conference has been an occasion of open discussion on the cultural identity of the city in the contemporary context, through a critical reflection on its history (in particular on some significant moments of the Florentine culture between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries) and on its linguistic primacy. La possibilità dell'uso di armi nucleari da parte di Israele è stata definita "opzione Sansone", poiché tale eventualità non avrebbe portato altro che la morte con tutti i moderni filistei, cioè i nemici dello Stato. Se invece si interpretano con le lenti della storia delle relazioni internazionali le circostanze e gli avvenimenti che segnarono la conquista dell'opzione nucleare da parte di Israele, essa diviene un elemento della costruzione del Medio Oriente postbellico, ovvero un passaggio di quella Guerra Fredda mediorientale che tanto ebbe a determinare il confronto fra le superpotenze. Grazie a fonti d'archivio finora inedite e ad un'attenta revisione bibliografica, l'autore rintraccia nel decennio 1953-1963 la costruzione di un ordine mediorientale statunitense, realizzato a scapito del nazionalismo arabo e dell'influenza sovietica, anche grazie all'intervento di Washington sull'opzione nucleare israeliana.
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The author of this study argues that nuclear weapons and the psychology of nuclear deterrence will remain important after 2000, but the character of that importance will change. Advanced technology conventional weapons based on information and electronics become more strategically important.
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Nuclear warfare --- Religious aspects. --- Psychological aspects.
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Regression (Civilization) --- Nuclear warfare --- Middle West
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There is great social tension in the aftermath of ‘Tiananmen Square’, uncertainty about political and economic policy and the constant burden of over-population. Serious flooding of the Yellow River adds more than a hundred million to the ‘floating population’ of destitute and semi-destitute peasant refugees. In addition, the rapid development of the market economy, and other reforms, have led to the prosperity of some but not in all provinces. The bastion of conservative opposition to reform remains in the Army, especially among the old revolutionaries. An ambitious Lieutenant-General (Wang Feng), backed by the highest-ranking officer of the Army, now retired, who still wields immense, informal power, arranges for the assassination of the reformist Secretary General of the Communist Party who is also President of China. Seven of the rich southern provinces subsequently declare independence because the anti-reform, anti-commercial new government threatens their prosperity… Taiwan sees this as an opportunity to ‘re-conquer the mainland’, but Wang Feng orders a pre-emptive nuclear attack on Taipei... Members of the Taiwanese army then capture a nuclear missile base in south China and fire a missile at Beijing, which lands in Russia by mistake…
Nuclear warfare --- Refugees --- China --- Church history
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Presents the text of an address given before the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 8, 1953, regarding peaceful uses of atomic energy. Dangers of atomic warfare; History of negotiations with the Soviet Union; Proposal for the advancement of research into atomic energy; Closing comments.
Nuclear warfare --- Safety measures. --- Environmental aspects.
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Arguing that previous critiques of rational choice and deterrence theory are not convincing, Frank Harvey constructs a new set of empirical tests of rational deterrence theory to illuminate patterns of interaction between rival nuclear powers. He analyses the crisis management techniques used by the United States and the Soviet Union in twenty-eight post-war crises and isolates factors that promote or inhibit escalation of these crises. This "crises"-based data set serves as the basis for identifying patterns of response when one nuclear state is threatened by another. The Future's Back offers new directions for testing that emphasize a more unified approach to theory building and assesses the feasibility of alternative courses of action to prevent escalation of future disputes characterized by nuclear rivalry.
Deterrence (Strategy) --- Nuclear warfare. --- World politics
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The last two decades have seen a slow but steady increase in nuclear armed states, and in the seemingly less constrained policy goals of some of the newer ""rogue"" states in the international system. The authors ofOn Limited Nuclear War in the 21st Century argue that a time may come when one of these states makes the conscious decision that using a nuclear weapon against the United States, its allies, or forward deployed forces in the context of a crisis or a regional conventional conflict may be in its interests. They assert that we are unprepared for these types of limited
Limited war. --- Nuclear warfare. --- United States -- Military policy. --- United States --- Military policy --- Nuclear warfare
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