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It's generally accepted that the U.S. covertly supplied Israel with nuclear weapons during the Cold War. By comparison, it pressured South Korea to end its nuclear program in 1975. Why the difference in policy?

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Suppose a Russian soldier in Petropavlovsk in 1812. Is he aware that Napoleon is invading Russia in the west? Can he be mobilised to defend Moscow? How would he even get there?

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Why were the James Bond films adapted out of order to the books?

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Despite being separated by thousands of years and thousands of miles, Sun Tzu and Clausewitz independently developed theories of war that are fundamentally almost identical. Have any cultures developed radically different philosophies of war?

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Is there an academic consensus as to how Rudolf Hess died?

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I have sometimes read that the Japanese took Hitler’s antisemitic rhetoric at face value: they didn’t persecute their own Jews because they didn’t want to antagonise a world Jewish conspiracy. Is this true? How did Germany respond?

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Today, Iran and Israel despise one another. Were relations so bad when Iran was under the Pahlavis?

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It's generally accepted that the U.S. covertly supplied Israel with nuclear weapons during the Cold War. By comparison, it pressured South Korea to end its nuclear program in 1975. Why the difference in policy?	1
Suppose a Russian soldier in Petropavlovsk in 1812. Is he aware that Napoleon is invading Russia in the west? Can he be mobilised to defend Moscow? How would he even get there?	1
Why were the James Bond films adapted out of order to the books?	1
Despite being separated by thousands of years and thousands of miles, Sun Tzu and Clausewitz independently developed theories of war that are fundamentally almost identical. Have any cultures developed radically different philosophies of war?	1
Is there an academic consensus as to how Rudolf Hess died?	1
I have sometimes read that the Japanese took Hitler’s antisemitic rhetoric at face value: they didn’t persecute their own Jews because they didn’t want to antagonise a world Jewish conspiracy. Is this true? How did Germany respond?	1
Today, Iran and Israel despise one another. Were relations so bad when Iran was under the Pahlavis?	1