Lastly, there is the possibility of a nuclear war triggered by something other than a state.
Starting in the 1950s, paralleling the Korean War, was the increasing risk of nuclear war.
Asteroid strikes and nuclear war are, from memory, two of the examples he uses.
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In the 1960s, a Democrat ad hinted that Barry Goldwater might start a nuclear war.
Well, I believe there's a better way of eliminating the threat of nuclear war.
Those who seek peace cannot stand idly by as nations arm themselves for nuclear war.
If you sing about gay sex and nuclear war, you are Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
Ten songs about nuclear war, at least half of which prominently featured imaginary girlfriends?
If you are a hot German chick and you sing about nuclear war, you are Nena.
Even so, argue Indian hawks, Pakistan is highly unlikely to embark on a suicidal nuclear war.
We now know enough to be reasonably confident that such action would have led to nuclear war.
As a teenager growing up in the 1980s, I wrote at least ten songs about nuclear war.
Many sessions, as usual, focused on threats from pandemics, nuclear war, Internet attacks, and other terrifying risks.
If you sang about starting a nuclear war via making out, you are Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
Go back to the 1960s, and the biggest threat in the minds of many governments was nuclear war.
One could as easily argue that there has never been a nuclear war.
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True, Kennedy rescued the world from a nuclear war by using diplomacy to resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis peacefully.
Yet a Soviet invasion quickly became unlikely, if for no other reason than the potential of escalation to nuclear war.
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If that was so, then constitutional procedures that could not be applied to nuclear war were simply no longer relevant.
Indeed, it was waged everywhere precisely because the threat of nuclear war was so terrible: Covert warfare became a prudent alternative.
Of all their fears, public speaking is number one, and death comes much further down the list, just before nuclear war.
While the world trembled on the brink of nuclear war, the Russians backed down and agreed to take the missiles away.
But many systems that were not deemed vital during a nuclear war, such as non-strategic command and control, were left unprotected.
And the weaker party, if nuclear capable, invariably holds out the threat of nuclear war as a way to deter conventional attack.
This meant a nightmarish increase in the chances of a nuclear war.
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Mikhail Gorbachev, Yasser Arafat and anti-nuclear activists like the Pugwash Conference and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War come to mind.
These weapons are of greatest concern with regard to the potential for nuclear war, and they should be our focus for arms reduction.
Radiation fear is especially problematic because it is connected directly to the obsessive worries over nuclear war that many of us grew up with.
For India, as for Pakistan, that means no exporting know-how, no testing new weapons, but instead exploring ways to avoid stumbling inadvertently into nuclear war.
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