The defense budget in 2005 totaled 1. 16 billion US Dollars.

The major turn in Sakharov ’ s political evolution came in 1967, when anti-ballistic missile defense became a key issue in US – Soviet relations.

During this period the US considered the defense of the US as a part of reducing the overall damage inflicted in a full nuclear exchange.

As part of this defense, Canada and the US established the North American Air Defense Command ( now called North American Aerospace Defense Command NORAD ).

" The construction of a missile defense system was also feared to enable the US to attack with a nuclear first strike.

In July 2009, the minister of defense, Nelson Jobim, said that Brazil will expend about 0. 7 % ( US $ 13 billion ) of the GDP per year to modernize the forces in addition to the 2. 6 % yearly defense budget.

The stubborn defense by US units and German weakness led to a defeat for the Germans.

To accomplish the UK / US mutual defense strategy, in November 1965, the UK purchased the Chagos Archipelago, which includes Diego Garcia, from the then self-governing colony of Mauritius for £ 3 million to create the British Indian Ocean Territory ( BIOT ), with the intent of ultimately closing the plantations to provide the uninhabited British territory from which the US would conduct its military activities in the region.

On 30 December 1966, the US and the UK executed an agreement through an Exchange of Notes which permit the US to use the BIOT for defense purposes for 50 years ( through December 2016 ), followed by a 20-year optional extension ( to 2036 ) to which both parties must agree by December 2014.

This Nicaragua-assisted invasion by Honduran exiles strongly displeased the United States government, which concluded that Zelaya wanted to dominate the entire Central American region, and the government dispatched marines to Puerto Cortes to protect the banana trade ; US naval units were also sent to Honduras and were able to successfully defend Bonilla's last defense position at Amapala in the Gulfo de Fonseca.

Politically, the Marshall Islands is a presidential republic in free association with the United States, with the US providing defense, funding grants, and access to social services.

The territorial claim by the Republic of the Marshall Islands on Wake Atoll leaves a certain amount of ambiguity regarding the actual or hypothetical role of the US military, responsible under agreement for the defense of Marshallese territory, in the event of any strategic crisis or hostilities involving Wake.

There was in fact, a moral difference between the Soviet Union and the United States, and that policy arising in defense of the " moral superiority " of the US could not and can not be " immoral.

A tighter security alliance with the United States was announced in the middle of the Georgian crisis as an agreement between the two countries was reached to allow the US to install and operate an interceptor missile defense shield, a move which Russia sees explicitly targeting it and which it stated made Poland " a legit military target.

Responsibility for the air defense of Puerto Rico now rests with USAF or US Navy fighters that would be flown in in case of a military emergency.

Both countries continued to deploy a single ABM site ; the US briefly deployed a single site under their Safeguard Program, while the Soviets deployed A35 / A135 missile defense system around Moscow.

In 1979 Edward Teller contributed to a Hoover Institution publication where he claimed that the US would be facing an emboldened USSR due to their work on civil defense.

One of the first uses of vector graphic displays was the US SAGE air defense system.

The defense budget increased from US $ 540 million in 2001 to an estimated US $ 2 billion – US $ 2. 1 billion in 2006, to which it is probably $ 3. 5 billion by 2012.

The patent, held by US entrepreneur Loren Miller, expired in 2003.

Steady growth in tourism receipts and a boom in construction of new hotels, resorts, and residences had led to solid GDP growth in recent years, but the slowdown in the US economy and the attacks of September 11, 2001 held back growth in these sectors in 2001-03.

A privately held company, Bunge & Born did not release periodical financial statements, though it reported US $ 2 billion in gross receipts in 1962 ; by then, it had become a leader in commodity futures trading, operating 110 offices worldwide.

Bunge remained a privately held company of 180 shareholders ( including the longtime controlling family interests ) and divested itself in 1998 of almost all its retail foods interests in favor of a greater role in international agribusiness and commodity markets ; by then the company's gross annual turnover had reached US $ 13 billion.

The Siege of the Alcázar in the Spanish Civil War, in which the Nationalists held out against a much larger Republican force for two months until relieved, shows that in some cases a citadel can be effective even in modern warfare ; a similar case is the Battle of Huế, where an NVA division held the citadel of Huế for 26 days against roughly their own numbers of much better-equipped US and South Vietnamese troops.

2002 ), a U. S. court of appeals held that H. Beatty Chadwick could be held indefinitely under federal law, for his failure to produce US $ 2. 5 mill.

Diego Garcia was the site of several naval exercises between the US and Indian navies held between 2001 and 2004.

The US philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce praised Cantor's set theory, and, following public lectures delivered by Cantor at the first International Congress of Mathematicians, held in Zurich in 1897, Hurwitz and Hadamard also both expressed their admiration.

Despite opposing the United States in favour of the Sandanistas on the country's northern border, stern warnings against the US Bay of Pigs invasion, along with repelling Nicaraguan dictator Somoza's invasion after turning to the Organization of American States, and border disputes with Nicaragua, Costa Rica has held firmly to its belief against ever having a military.

Heinz ranked first in ketchup in the US with a market share in excess of 50 %; Ore-Ida label held more than 50 % of the frozen-potato sector.

During the first decade of the new century, hedge funds regained popularity worldwide and in 2008, the worldwide industry held US $ 1. 93 trillion in assets under management.

The Louisiana Territory was broken into smaller portions for administration, and the territories passed slavery laws similar to those in the southern states but trying to encompass the preceding French and Spanish rule ( for instance, Spain had prohibited slavery of Native Americans in 1769, but some slaves of mixed African-Native American descent were still being held in St. Louis when the US took over the Louisiana Territory ).

In 2007, following the crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Myanmar, human rights organizations, gem dealers, and US First Lady Laura Bush called for a boycott of a Myanmar gem auction held twice yearly, arguing that the sale of the stones profits the dictatorial regime in that country.

When the first scientific satellites were launched in the first half of 1958 — Explorers 1 and 3 by the US, Sputnik 3 by the Soviet Union — they observed an intense ( and unexpected ) radiation belt around Earth, held by its magnetic field.

The crew were held captive throughout the year despite American protests that the vessel was in international waters and finally released in December after a formal US apology was issued.

* 1979 – Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.

* 1969 – Vietnam War ; The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam is held in Washington DC and across the US.

Odyssey became much more popular in Brazil than it ever was in the US ; tournaments were even held for popular games like K. C.

A complete set of cards is called a pack ( UK English ) or deck ( US English ), and the subset of cards held at one time by a player during a game is commonly called a hand.

When Guillermo Endara won the Presidential elections held in May 1989, the Noriega regime annulled the election, citing massive US interference.

If the latter option were to win, a separate referendum would be held where Puerto Ricans would have been given the option of being admitted as a US State " on equal footing with the other states ", or becoming a " sovereign nation, either fully independent from or in free association with the United States.

There was one case where a defendant was served while the airplane was in the air over the forum State, and the US Supreme Court held that this was valid service, since at law the territory of a state includes the airspace above the State.

The US held 48, 000.