secondary effects, such as "nuclear winter", nuclear famine, and societal collapse. A global thermonuclear war with Cold War-era stockpiles, or even with...
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Nuclear War: A Scenario is a 2024 nonfiction book by American journalist Annie Jacobsen. It outlines a timeline of a hypothetical first strike against...
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the proliferation of nuclear weapons is a focus of international relations policy. Nuclear weapons have been deployed twice in war, both by the United...
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in August 2022, a nuclear war between India and Pakistan could kill more than 2 billion indirectly by starvation during a nuclear winter. Pokhran-I (Smiling...
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immediate destruction of cities by nuclear blasts, the potential aftermath of a nuclear war could involve firestorms, a nuclear winter, widespread radiation...
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No Nuclear War is the seventh and final studio album by the Jamaican musician Peter Tosh, released in 1987. Tosh was murdered shortly after its release;...
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Dead Hand (redirect from Dead hand (nuclear war))
System', with the GRAU Index 15E601, Cyrillic: 15Э601), is a Cold War-era automatic nuclear weapons-control system (similar in concept to the American AN/DRC-8...
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War II (1939–1945). It is widely assumed that such a war would involve all of the great powers, like its predecessors, as well as the use of nuclear weapons...
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Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction (redirect from Post-nuclear war world)
literature gained widespread popularity after World War II, when the possibility of global annihilation by nuclear weapons entered the public consciousness. The...
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hypothesized to occur after widespread firestorms following a large-scale nuclear war. The hypothesis is based on the fact that such fires can inject soot...
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Atomic Age. The term originates from the Cold War period and has been defined as a "fear of nuclear war and of its consequences". It was particularly...
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during the Cold War. During this same period, in addition to the American and Soviet nuclear stockpiles, other countries developed nuclear weapons, though...
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manufacture nuclear weapons and is the only country to have used them in combat, with the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II. Before and...
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of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Windscale: Britain’s Biggest Nuclear Disaster War and Peace The War Game (1966 BBC) A Boy and His Dog (1975) – the story of...
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complete nuclear disarmament. Disarmament and non-proliferation treaties have been agreed upon because of the extreme danger intrinsic to nuclear war and the...
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following a nuclear war is less controversial. Several books have been written on the food supply issue, including Fallout Protection, Nuclear War Survival...
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Able Archer 83 (redirect from 1983 nuclear war scare)
by some to be one of the closest moments the world came to nuclear war during the Cold War. It was the annual Able Archer exercise conducted in November...
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Brinkmanship (redirect from Nuclear brinksmanship)
during the Cold War because neither side of the conflict could contemplate mutual assured destruction in a nuclear war. The nuclear deterrence of both...
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blast radius. Nuclear explosions can also have detrimental effects on the climate, lasting from months to years. A small-scale nuclear war could release...
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equipment (notably nuclear-capable airplanes) required for the use of nuclear weapons and store nuclear weapons on their territory. In case of war, the United...
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strategic bombers with nuclear bombs and missiles. Countries build nuclear triads to eliminate an enemy's ability to destroy a nation's nuclear forces in a first-strike...
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Nuclear War Survival Skills or NWSS, by Cresson Kearny, is a civil defense manual. It contains information gleaned from research performed at Oak Ridge...
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a "nuclear autumn" or "nuclear winter" if they did not die earlier from retaliation or fallout. If the nuclear war dropped only roughly 100 nuclear weapons...
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Dark: The World after Nuclear War (1984) Command and Control (book) (2013) Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement...
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The War Game is a 1966 British pseudo-documentary film that depicts a nuclear war and its aftermath. Written, directed and produced by Peter Watkins for...
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Nuclear fallout is the residual radioactive material propelled into the upper atmosphere following a nuclear blast, so called because it "falls out" of...
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Songs with a theme of nuclear war have been a feature of popular culture since the early years of the Cold War. "4 Minute Warning" By Radiohead (2007)...
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United Kingdom began the world's first nuclear weapons research project, codenamed Tube Alloys, in 1941, during World War II. The United States, in collaboration...
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nuclear war could threaten food production worldwide—a scenario known as nuclear famine. There have also been a number of accidents involving nuclear...
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The nuclear football (also known as the atomic football, the Presidential Emergency Satchel, the satchel, the button, the Black Bag, the black box, or...
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