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NSC 68 was drafted under the guidance of Paul H. Nitze, Director of Policy Planning for the United States Department of State, 1950–1953.. By 1950, U.S. national security policies required reexamination due to a series of events: the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was operational, military assistance for European allies had begun, the Soviet Union had detonated an atomic bomb and ...
On 23 September 2022, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Kwasi Kwarteng, delivered a Ministerial Statement entitled "The Growth Plan" to the House of Commons. [1] [2] Widely referred to in the media as a mini-budget (it not being an official budget statement), it contained a set of economic policies and tax cuts such as bringing forward the planned 1% cut in the basic rate of income tax to 19% ...
Mini-budget may refer to: July 2020 United Kingdom summer statement, also known as the Coronavirus mini-budget; September 2020 United Kingdom Winter Economy Plan, sometimes referred to as a mini-budget; September 2022 United Kingdom mini-budget, a fiscal event that led to market disruption and the fall of the Liz Truss government
Energy costs for the typical British household were expected to rise 80% from October 2022, from £1,971 to £3,549, [17] until Liz Truss, who was Prime Minister at the time, announced measures to limit these increases. On 23 September 2022, UK Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng announced his mini-budget, backed by Truss, which included widespread tax ...
The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which lasted from 1947 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
The time period of around 1985–1991 marked the final period of the Cold War.It was characterized by systemic reform within the Soviet Union, the easing of geopolitical tensions between the Soviet-led bloc and the United States-led bloc, the collapse of the Soviet Union's influence in Eastern Europe, and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Yields on 30-year government bonds, or gilts, eased back by around 10% as Jeremy Hunt set out plans to shave off billions of Government debt.
Titan Nuclear Missile (made for the cold war) in its launch silo. A cold war is a state of conflict between nations that does not involve direct military action but is pursued primarily through economic and political actions, propaganda, acts of espionage or proxy wars waged by surrogates.