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I know that the Russian Federation retained the vast USSR nuclear arsenal, including the weapons in the non-Russia soviet bloc. I was zero years old when the USSR dissolved, and I am not a history buff, so my question may be naive. Nonetheless, why didn't Western powers attempt to seize and/or destroy the USSR nuclear arsenal?

My guess is that the U.S. did not want to break longstanding nuclear treaties, nor did it want to invade Russia. However, that's just my speculation.

There's been a lot of buzz on here lately about the U.S. Civil War, particularly with the recent AMA by Dr. McPherson.

Shelby Foote comes up often in these discussions. I've seen it asserted a couple of times that Foote's work is 40+ years out of date, and that modern understanding of the war has changed significantly. I haven't seen any specifics on how our understanding of the war has changed, however.

I've been looking into this, and found a few variations: Mister, Master, Doctor, Parson. However, I'm still unsure as to which one(s) to use. Doctor seems fairly obvious, in that it should only apply to a learned man with a degree, but I'm even a little unsure on that. In my research, Parson seems to be a more casual/familiar term, and even a little derogatory in some instances.

Is there anyone out there who can set me straight on which forms of address to use and when?

Wouldnt it have been easier to line everything up in a grid form?

I know a lot of the places in the east went off rivers and mountains and stuff but why not just make it straight lines as they moved west or incorporated new states?

Even today, there's still a stigma attached to clinical depression -- so I imagine that depression could have arguably been viewed as a lack of will or mental strength, rather than an actual mental illness and imbalance.

Today, despite the stigma, there are obviously more people seeking to get diagnosed and treatment; is there any indication that people avoided seeking treatment, or perhaps even doctors refused to acknowledge that it was something to be treated?

Did they defend their parents or did they feel ashamed/guily? Did they remain in Germany? Where any politically active?

Are there any accounts of what Caesar was like, say, in the company of those he regarded as friends? What is known of his personality and/or personal interests?

People seem to have extremely strong opinions about him, but I can't really tell why. Was there some event he was famous for that gave him a terrible reputation?

The reason for my question is I currently live in China and students here learn about entirely fictional people, or, more accurately, real people whose entire biography is fictional.

I see this as a crass propaganda tool, but I also wonder if the same isn't happening back home.

I'm asking this after I seen a question asked on how hard it was for arrows to be supply in battle.

Surely after a bit of time the arrows would start to bow or twist, which is a common problem with timber manufacturers of today. They can't have lacquered the wood or something along those lines back in the day?