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  Stoking an Asian Cold War?  
  10th November 2010  
 

WASHINGTON (IDN) - Proxy wars between countries was one of the more tragic features of the Cold War between the U.S. and the USSR. Both super-powers fuelled the conflicts supplying military materiel and political support while they piously claimed that nuclear deterrence worked so that they themselves never went to war. The U.S. in particular claimed that the George Kennan doctrine of the "containment" of the USSR worked and ere long the Communist giant imploded obligingly.

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  Photos from the 58th Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs held in Hague from 17-20 April 2009  
 

Photos of Pugwash President Jayantha Dhanapala and Secretary General Paolo Cotta-Ramusino
visit policymakers in Washington, DC,
April 27-29, 2009
to discuss nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation

 
 

 
 

 

 
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