Jeong Kim, 39, is a former Navy officer who spent seven years aboard nuclear attack submarines.
Advocates of Mutual Assured Destruction insisted on leaving civilian populations totally vulnerable to nuclear attack.
Then, aiming upward, you can shoot out of the water like a nuclear attack sub.
Its job is to advise politicians regularly on the risks of a nuclear attack.
For a country as small as Israel, even a small-scale nuclear attack could be an existential threat.
But deterrence worked only because a nuclear attack would have been immediately attributable.
People liked to have his assurance that America could survive a nuclear attack.
Founded to keep military communications flowing after a nuclear attack, it was later turned over to the National Science Foundation.
As the only country to have suffered a nuclear attack, Japanese officials have long opposed the use of nuclear weapons.
Founded to keep military communications flowing after a nuclear attack, it was later turned over to the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Because of the damage that a single nuclear weapon can do, an overlapping defense capability is required against a nuclear attack.
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Its workers, who were sworn to secrecy, could have survived down here for three months in the event of a nuclear attack.
Japan's prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi, said that his country, the only one to have suffered a nuclear attack, wanted talks to continue.
' He also argued that the United States should abandon plans to attack Soviet missile silos in responding to a nuclear attack.
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Democratic senators would retaliate against any nuclear attack by using all the other delaying tactics open to them to close down the upper chamber.
As long as enemies were not crazy or accident prone, the thinking went, a secure retaliatory force should be sufficient to deter nuclear attack.
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And during the Cold War, the U.S. government set up an underground bunker from which to operate in the event of a nuclear attack.
Among the votes the group evaluated were nine Mr. Kerry cast against developing a missile-defense system envisioned to protect the United States from nuclear attack.
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Second, as an alternative to defenses, national leaders adopted a strategy of deterrence, meaning any enemy foolish enough to launch a nuclear attack would suffer devastating retaliation-in-kind.
During the Cold War, when the United States faced the threat of a nuclear attack, U.S. administrations made clear that any strike would prompt an all-out retaliation.
U.S. military analysts figured out during the early days of the Cold War that no effective defense against a large-scale nuclear attack was likely to be feasible.
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Dave Neal compares the current set of priorities to civil defense spending 40 years ago when a large chunk of federal funds went to preparing for a nuclear attack.
The committee said sudden fluctuations in the magnetic field caused by weather in space or nuclear attack, could wipe out electricity and GPS, used by the military and financial markets.
Mr. NEAL: You go back to the '60s, we see there was no nuclear attack but yet we had tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, a lot of them on an annual basis.
But he got America to spend billions upon billions of dollars on weapons, on underground shelters that he believed could save most people in a nuclear attack and on Star Wars.
With thousands of warheads in the Russian arsenal and only a handful required to cause unprecedented destruction, it seemed impossible to develop the kind of near-perfect defenses required to mitigate the effects of a nuclear attack.
This gives rise to the worry that the distinction between conventional and nuclear warfare would be blurred, leading to a lower threshold for a nuclear attack, and thus to the undermining of the global non-proliferation regime.
Unlike the regular Internet we all use everyday, which was originally designed to distribute the AACS hex key withstand a nuclear attack, Internet2 is designed primarily for speed -- up to 9.08Gbps in most recent tests.
For example, a home shelter, he says, should be able to serve as a storm shelter against hurricanes, a pantry, a secure room for storing weapons, and as a fallout bunker in the event of nuclear attack.
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