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ExComm and Oleg Penkovskiy: American decision-making during Cuban crisis
Kordač, Adam ; Anděl, Petr (advisor) ; Calda, Miloš (referee)
This thesis analyses the developments during Cuban missile crisis in October 1962 with main focus set on possible importance of information provided by col. Penkovskiy in ExComm's a JFK's decision- making during the Crisis days. This thesis is based on the presumption that the information carried out of SSSR by col. Oleg Penkovskiy of the Soviet Artillery and GRU played key role in the Crisis' development. This work is based on wide range of sources - namely CIA archive materials, academic literature dedicated to the whole problematic. This thesis also tries to imply the importance of human espionage in the contrast of rapid development of surveillance technology in the early sixties.
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Analysis of the Czechoslovak newsreel in 1961
Panák, Břetislav ; Bednařík, Petr (advisor) ; Knapík, Jiří (referee)
The aim of the diploma thesis is analysis of the Czechoslovak newsreel of 1961. In the quantitative method, reports are sorted by the codebook into thematic groups. There are following variables: soft x hard news; domestic x foreign news; culture x politics x economy x sport x disaster x rest. As a result of this method we can find out which news were preferred (agenda-setting) and bated (gate-keeping). In the qualitative method author is analysing foreign reports chosen by quantitative method. There were chosen these topics: Soviet economy, German question, Space Race, Cuban Crises and French decolonialism. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Atomic weapon as an instrument of peace
Filip, David ; Stellner, František (advisor) ; Soběhart, Radek (referee)
Regarding the existence of nuclear weapons, which were never used all over atomic bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima as a tool of war against civilian or military targets during the Cold War, I try to give an explanation of "armed peace". I consider the question of why the two superpowers (the USA and the USSR) didn't start a "hot war" that would have been more likely nuclear. As an example of the most critical event will serve me Cuban Missile Crisis, with which can be the description of it understood in broader context. The paper points to the interrelations of opposing ideologies that related to atomic weapons have often drawn the same conclusions. I examine the military-strategic value of the atomic bombs which have shaped international relations troughtout the second half of the twentieth century. Besides the military aspects I also mention economic interpretation of the nuclear arms race and economic potential of the USSR and the USA. Why have in the first instance occured one-sided and than gradually overall disarment, reducing the number of nuclear warheads? I try to documented the explanation out of historical events also by using teoretical models.
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