Explain the doctrine of mutual assured destruction (MAD).
What will be an ideal response?
Beginning in the early 1960s, the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in a nuclear arms race in which each country attempted to surpass the other's nuclear capability. According to the doctrine of mutual assured destruction (MAD), if one nation attacked another with nuclear weapons, the other would be capable of retaliating, and would retaliate, with such force as to assure mutual annihilation. The advent of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) meant that both the United States and the Soviet Union were capable of sending nuclear warheads through space to targets in their rivals' homelands.
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The Supreme Court would likely view all of these actions as violating the constitutional right to free speech EXCEPT a. organizing a terror strike against our government. b. burning a replica of the American flag. c. asking for a list of names of all organizers and participants of an anti-government rally and then investigatingthem
d. wiretaps of individuals without their knowledge and without a warrant. e. Ku Klux Klan rally designed to start a riot against the minorities.
The way in which the media's emphasis on particular characteristics of people, events, or issues influences the public's perceptions of those people, events, or issues is called framing.
a. true b. false
For what primary reason did mixed race individuals and parents of mixed race children object to the U.S. Census Bureau’s “check one box” policy?
A. The selection of races was too wide to pinpoint one accurately enough. B. They were forced to select a box that they believed would carry the highest status. C. It left them with only a meaningless “multiracial” box as a choice. D. It forced them to select a singular aspect of their racial identity.