tability, the Communist orbit has led to a proliferation of new and usually unmanageable crises both within and between dozens of nations" (87). At the same time, he discusses America's inability to live within a lower military budget, increases beginning with 1949's Russian atom bomb tests which eliminated the U.S. monopoly on fissionable weaponry. And so, the race began, with the U.S. now experimenting with hydrogen bombs, and upping the military budgets year after year.
All this emphasis on superiority- arms, politics, economical strength- has made the U.S. more hated: "The United States has more determined and
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