{"id":1783,"date":"2016-10-31T00:29:48","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T00:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/course.oeru.org\/whme103\/?page_id=1783"},"modified":"2016-10-31T00:29:48","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T00:29:48","slug":"the-atomic-arms-race","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/whme103\/learning-pathways\/global-effects-of-the-cold-war\/the-atomic-arms-race\/","title":{"rendered":"The Atomic Arms Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\" class=\"mw-body container\" role=\"main\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<div class=\"panel-body\">\n<div id=\"bodyContent\">\n<div id=\"mw-content-text\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"mw-content-ltr\"><div class=\"panel iDevice\">\n\t<div class=\"panel-heading idevice-heading\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pedagogicalicon\" alt=\"reading\" src=\"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/whme103\/wp-content\/themes\/oeru_course\/idevices\/Icon_reading.png\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<h2>Reading<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"panel-body\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"thumb tright\">\n<div class=\"thumbinner thumbnail\" style=\"width:302px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/WikiEducator.org\/File:Operation_Crossroads_Baker_Edit.jpg\" class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/\/WikiEducator.org\/images\/thumb\/0\/09\/Operation_Crossroads_Baker_Edit.jpg\/300px-Operation_Crossroads_Baker_Edit.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" class=\"thumbimage img-responsive\"><\/a>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"thumbcaption\">Nuclear test at Bikini Atoll<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the below article (pages 1-27). As you do so, consider the following questions:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> What led to the nuclear arms race?\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> What is MAD?\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.atomicarchive.com\/History\/coldwar\/index.shtml\">Cold War: A Brief History, pp. 1-27.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHow much of a threat do you think nuclear weapons continue to pose today? Should the international community be doing more to manage this threat? You may like to contribute to our course forum on this topic here: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/forums.oeru.org\/t\/whme-103-nuclear-weapons\/173\">Nuclear Weapons<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/p>\n<p><!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCPU time usage: 0.013 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.013 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 109\/1000000\nPreprocessor generated node count: 774\/1000000\nPost\u2010expand include size: 2723\/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 1290\/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 7\/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0\/100\n--><\/p>\n<p><!-- Saved in parser cache with key wikiedu-mw_:pcache:idhash:177831-0!*!*!*!*!2!* and timestamp 20161030234952 and revision id 1016164\n -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"visualClear\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<ul class=\"pager\">\n<li class=\"previous\">\n            <a href=\"\/whme103\/learning-pathways\/global-effects-of-the-cold-war\/overview\">\u2190 Previous<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<li class=\"next\">\n            <a href=\"\/whme103\/learning-pathways\/global-effects-of-the-cold-war\/revolutionary-politics-in-the-west\">Next \u2192<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<br \/>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2190 Previous Next \u2192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":1779,"menu_order":8100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1783","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/whme103\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/whme103\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/whme103\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/whme103\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/whme103\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/whme103\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1784,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/whme103\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1783\/revisions\/1784"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/whme103\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/whme103\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}