Nuclear War
Nuclear warfare (sometimes atomic warfare or thermonuclear warfare) is a military conflict or political strategy which deploys nuclear weaponry. Nuclear weapons are weapons of mass destruction; in contrast to conventional warfare, nuclear warfare can produce destruction in a much shorter time and can have a long-lasting radiological result. A major nuclear exchange would have long-term effects, primarily from the fallout released, and could also lead to a "nuclear winter" that could last for decades, centuries, or even millennia after the initial attack. Some analysts dismiss the nuclear winter hypothesis, and calculate that even with nuclear weapon stockpiles at Cold War …
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GALA: Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action · 2015 English
Kraak left a substantial personal collection to GALA in his will – reinforcing his commitment to the importance of archives and preserving history in his lifetime. [...] In addition, a …
Communist Party of the Netherlands (CPN), anti-nuclear war protests, and a large amount of articles relating …
Laws.Africa · 4 October 1999 English
the world have meant that the prospects of nuclear war and full-scale confrontation between East and …
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 January 1989 English
A survey of race relations in South Africa in 1988/89 and includes chapters on: Health and welfare; Social segregation; Homelands; Population and settlement; Housing; Education; The economy and business; Employment; …
range ballistic missile capable of carrying nuclear war- heads.35 The following month it was reported …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1987
Mordekhai Gur was a military officer who served as Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) from 1974-1978, then became a member of the Knesset. He discusses his …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1986
Paul Warnke was chief negotiator for the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) II during the Jimmy Carter administration and director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency from 1977 to …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1986
culminated in August 1980s Presidential Directive 59 (PD 59), which introduced into the basic nuclear-war plan the idea of striking at the Soviet command structure. For Brzezinski, PD 59 provided enhanced …
WGBH Educational Foundation · 1986
General Pierre-Marie Gallois, often regarded as the father of the French nuclear strategy, served with the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) and with French president Charles de Gaulle. In …
Villon Films · 1985 English
This is the story of how apartheid South Africa achieved nuclear weapons capability with a little help from its friends in the West, and the investigative reporters and spies who …
dangerous world in the sense that the probability of nuclear war would increase and therefore the the situation …
SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 January 1984 English
Paper presented at the SAIIA[South African Institute of International Affairs]/World Peace Foundation Conference, Hilton, Natal, 17 - 20 January, 1984.
involvements with them as hazardous. Above all else, nuclear war casts as much of a shadow over Soviet policy … Eastern Europe. Third, policy must seek to avoid nuclear war. This belongs third because, as far as one can …
The Weekly Review Ltd. · 20 May 1983 English
Muganda, Maryland, USA Nuclear war SIR—The issue with the cover story on nuclear war vividly displayed …
