Joe finds a new job and at age 35 is now making $55,000 a year. At this point he should have $82,500 saved for retirement. How to get there: Check in on your portfolio to make sure you're taking on enough risk to grow your investments. If retirement is 30 years away, you should have about 80% of your assets in the stock market.
The president of the United States can, in theory, launch nuclear war by personal decisionâwithout any checks or balances. Whether we really think any of the candidates for president in 2016 would cavalierly start a nuclear war, the bombastic and bizarre character of much of this yearâs electoral debate should make us take this question seriously. Someday, the United States really could have a mentally ill president who chose to do the unthinkable.
The most serious Cold War confrontation between the United States and the USSR that took place in October, 1962. The U.S. discovered that the Soviets were in the process of positioning nuclear missiles in Communist Cuba. The United States sends naval blockade to stop Soviet ships carrying missiles to Cuba.his event ends America's monopoly of atomic weaponry and launches the Cold War. In the 1950's, The Arms Race became the focus of the Cold War. America tested the first Hydrogen (or thermo-nuclear) bomb in 1952, beating the Russians in the creation of the Super Bomb.