In the aftermath many new problems arose, but they pale in comparison to a nuclear holocaust.

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Outside of Mega-City One is the Cursed Earth, a.k.a. the rest of the United States, post nuclear holocaust.

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While Japan was the victim of nuclear holocaust it did not have nuclear weapons and was not in a position to retaliate.

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But, by focusing on the balance of power created by the threat of nuclear holocaust, McConnell leaves out how the Cold War was won.

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The Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 caused a mini panic, but the Russians backed down and thoughts of a nuclear holocaust receded in our consciousness.

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The second world war saw mass murder (in the Holocaust, notably) or wilful killing (the nuclear strike on Hiroshima, the firebombing of Dresden, the siege of Stalingrad) of tens of millions of non-combatants.

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Time and again he has drawn parallels between the Iranian nuclear crisis and the world's failure to prevent WWII and the Holocaust while it still had the chance.

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