It help the government to enforce these beliefs
The correct answer is C) the United States.
The nation that the director feared might use the weapon they had developed against the Soviet Union was the United States.
The quote of the Director referred in the question is the following: "When we succeed in resolving this problem, we felt relief, even happiness-for in possessing such a weapon, we had removed the possibility of its being used against the USRR with impunity."
It was said by the Director of the Testing in the Soviet Union. Laboratory
We are referring to the Cold War years that confronted the United States and the Soviet Union in many aspects such as the arms race to construct nuclear weapons or the spread of Communism by the Soviet Union or the measures by the United States to stop it.
The US defeat of pirates in The Mediterranean
(I think so!)
The Tinker vs. Des Moines case was one that focused on student's 1st amendment rights on school grounds. As a protest to the Vietnam War, Tinker wore a black armband with a peace sign. Mary Beth Tinker was then punished for wearing this armband. She took it took court arguing that this was protected free speech under the first amendment. After several appeals/trials, the Supreme Court voted 7-2 that this was indeed protected free speech.
The majority decision basically discussed how students do not lose their first amendment free speech privileges once on school campus. The majority judge argues that unless the speech disrupts the educational process, then it is protected by the first amendment. Failing to prove that the speech disrupted the educational process results in the speech being protected by the first amendment.
The dissenting opinion said that students should not have the right to express any opinion at any given time. The two judges also argued that this incident distracted students from their work and the ability of the school's administration to do their job well.
