Lastly, there is the possibility of a nuclear war triggered by something other than a state.
In the 1960s, a Democrat ad hinted that Barry Goldwater might start a nuclear war.
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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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.
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.
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.
And the nuclear-winter hypothesis (that the smoke from fires caused by a global nuclear war would blot out the sun's rays and thus cool the earth catastrophically) owes its origin, at least in part, to observations of a planet-wide dust storm on Mars.
Even so, argue Indian hawks, Pakistan is highly unlikely to embark on a suicidal nuclear war.
The choices are now what they ever were: an American or an Israeli strike, which would probably cause a substantial war, or living in a world with Iranian nuclear weapons, which may also result in war, perhaps nuclear, over a longer period of time.
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It's a simple story: war has wrought a nuclear winter that threatens to wipe out all life on Earth, and the spaceship is sent in search of a "cosmo cleaner" to save humanity.
He'd been an acclaimed explorer, a nuclear physicist and a war hero, or so he said.
Fifty years ago today, the President of the United States grimly contemplated the possibility of global nuclear war as he entered a showdown with the Soviet Union over nuclear missiles in Cuba.
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The fact is neither Obama, the mullahs, nor Netanyahu wants a war over the nuclear issue.
After the war, some bunkers left were kept on standby in case of another war or a nuclear disaster.
The biggest problem facing the world is a war resulting from nuclear proliferation.
And the weaker party, if nuclear capable, invariably holds out the threat of nuclear war as a way to deter conventional attack.
Few western politicians would want to explain to their voters why winning a Balkan war is worth even the faintest risk of a nuclear one.
During the Cold War we had a nuclear triad of manned bombers, submarine-launched missiles and land-based ballistic missiles.
Few people know that when Robert Ballard discovered the wreck of the Titanic in 1985, he was on a U.S. Navy mission to hunt down a nuclear submarine lost during the Cold War.
Apparently everyone from the New York Daily News to TV stations in Portland, Oregon has forgotten that nuclear weapons production from WWII and early in the Cold War has nothing to do with a nuclear power plant today.
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Japan and Australia, sponsors of rival grand commissions when a potential nuclear-free window opened at the cold war's end, have joined forces to set up a new one.
Nuclear proliferation has continued since the Cold War with eight ( really nine) countries possessing a nuclear weapons capability.
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The task force in its first phase report recognized the atrophy of the nuclear mission since the Cold War and stated the "nuclear mission must be reinstituted as a continuing responsibility of the Air Force"13 Why was this important?
Well, I believe there's a better way of eliminating the threat of nuclear war.
If you are a hot German chick and you sing about nuclear war, you are Nena.
As President of Kazakhstan indicated, this was a major site for nuclear operations during the Cold War.
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