Cultural Impact of The Cold War. Stanislav Petrov September 26, 1983 September 26, 1983 USSR had...
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Cultural Impact of The Cold War. Stanislav Petrov September 26, 1983 September 26, 1983 USSR had recently shot down a Korean airliner USSR had recently
Stanislav Petrov September 26, 1983 September 26, 1983 USSR had
recently shot down a Korean airliner USSR had recently shot down a
Korean airliner Ballistic Missile Early Warning System Ballistic
Missile Early Warning System Detected an inbound warhead from the
US Detected an inbound warhead from the US Dismissed as false alarm
Dismissed as false alarm Then detected 4 more missiles Then
detected 4 more missiles Waited 5 minutes, then called another
false alarm Waited 5 minutes, then called another false alarm
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Vasiliy Arkhipov October 27, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis October
27, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis US Navy surrounded a Russian Foxtrot
class submarine US Navy surrounded a Russian Foxtrot class
submarine Then they dropped practice depth charges on it Then they
dropped practice depth charges on it Russians thought the attack
was real and loaded a nuclear torpedo Russians thought the attack
was real and loaded a nuclear torpedo
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CHECK LIST FOR SURVIVAL Please answer "yes" or "no" in the
spaces provided. Your answers to these questions will indicate what
you need to learn. 1. Do I know how to stop serious bleeding? 2. Do
I know the first-aid treatment for serious burns? 3. Do I know how
to make a fire-resistant solution for drapes and curtains? 4. Do I
know how to cope with an incendiary bomb? 5. Do I know where and
how to search for casualties in a damaged building? 6. Do I know
how to improvise rescue tools out of every day household equipment?
7. Do I know how to provide a safe emergency supply of drinking
water? 8. Do I know how to purify water? 9. Do I have a safe
emergency supply of food? 10. Do I recognize the air-raid warning
signals? 11. Do I know how to protect myself from atomic blast and
heat? 12. Do I know how to protect myself from radioactivity? 13.
Do I know how to keep radioactivity out of food and water?
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Duck and Cover
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1963 Civil Defense Pamphlet
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Nuclear Bomb Testing
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Nuclear Bombs
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Trident Program 18 subs carrying 24 missiles with 12 warheads
18 subs carrying 24 missiles with 12 warheads 18 x 24 x 12 = 5,184
nuclear warheads 18 x 24 x 12 = 5,184 nuclear warheads That equals
1.8 gigatons of TNT That equals 1.8 gigatons of TNT
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the
Bomb 1961 1961 Directed by Stanley Kubrick Directed by Stanley
Kubrick Plot: An insane general starts a process to nuclear
holocaust that a war room of politicians and generals frantically
try to stop. Plot: An insane general starts a process to nuclear
holocaust that a war room of politicians and generals frantically
try to stop. Better dead than red. Better dead than red.