Lastly, there is the possibility of a nuclear war triggered by something other than a state.
But if the American imperialists provoke us unjustifiably, we will answer with a nuclear war.
In the 1960s, a Democrat ad hinted that Barry Goldwater might start a nuclear war.
Japan entered into a nuclear war, one which it lost and the fallout devastated the countryside.
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If you sang about starting a nuclear war via making out, you are Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
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.
But many systems that were not deemed vital during a nuclear war, such as non-strategic command and control, were left unprotected.
This meant a nightmarish increase in the chances of a nuclear war.
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As South Korea and America conducted annual joint military exercises, North Korea complained bitterly and gave warning of the risk of a nuclear war.
It used to be the case that you needed an army or a nuke of your own if you wanted to start a nuclear war.
"The situation of the Korean Peninsula is reaching the brink of a nuclear war, " the statement, issued by the official Korean Central News Agency, says.
If they persist, then the ability to trigger a nuclear war will be spread far wider in the future than it has been in the past.
There was never a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union, in large part because each country was deterred from attacking the other.
Estimates of the level of destruction that could be wrought by a nuclear war between India and Pakistan vary even more than trying to count warheads.
Among other threats in the past week, North Korea has warned Seoul of a nuclear war on the divided peninsula and said it was cancelling nonaggression pacts.
On Monday, North Korea's Rodong Sinmun newspaper described the military drills as "attack rehearsals" that were "driving the situation of the Korean Peninsula to a nuclear war".
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These insights would be especially useful if the Kremlin still harbors its past ambitions for waging and winning a nuclear war, including the possibility of a "first-strike" attack.
Since early March, North Korea has steadily and dramatically ramped up the rhetoric warning of a nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula, though it has quieted in recent days.
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) North Korea on Tuesday urged all foreign companies and tourists in South Korea to evacuate, saying the two countries are on the verge of a nuclear war.
Fail Safe is a nuclear war story, considered to be the serious version of Dr Strangelove and the original novel was made into a film released just months after the Kubrick comedy.
For half the 20th century the Arctic, as the shortest route between Russia and America, was the likeliest theatre for a nuclear war, and some see potential for fresh conflict in its opening.
In the mid-1980s the fashionable eco-catastrophe was nuclear winter millions of tonnes of smoke deposited in the upper atmosphere as the result of a nuclear war causing a drastic drop in the surface temperature of the world.
An unidentified spokesman for Pyongyang's Foreign Ministry said the North will exercise its right for "a preemptive nuclear attack to destroy the strongholds of the aggressors" because Washington is pushing to start a nuclear war against the North.
"Listing these two missile sites is particularly poignant on the 50th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis and serves as a very physical reminder of an uncertain and tense period where the world feared a nuclear war, " he said.
George Fernandes, India's defence minister and a member of the Political Council, told a business conference on January 7th that, while India would suffer a little in a nuclear war, there would be no Pakistan left after its retaliation.
Under the strategic circumstances of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, all that was necessary was to ensure the survivability of nuclear forces because very little could survive on the ground should a nuclear war erupt.
Now although, to be sure, no one imagined that Iran could acquire the capability to destroy the United States, but it was all too easy to imagine that the United States would be deterred from standing in Iran's way by the fear of triggering a nuclear war.
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China, by aiding and abetting Pakistan's nuclear proliferation, is waging a proxy nuclear war on India and the West has not lifted a finger to stop it.
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