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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11 May 2022 English
Secret Files from World Wars to Cold War provides access to British government secret intelligence and foreign policy files from 1873 to 1953, with the majority of files dating from …
the plight of prisoners of war ● the threat of nuclear war ● Anglo-American cooperation ● U.K. preparations …
4 May 2022 English
Cold War Eastern Europe provides access to thousands of files from the political departments of the U.K. Foreign Office responsible for dealing with and reporting on the Soviet Union and …
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The threat of nuclear war increased as the Cold War expanded internationally …
UCL: University College London · 1 January 2017 English
In the Cold War Eastern Europe collection, historians have an invitation to explore the variety and complexity of the cultural Cold War. The explosion in cultural traffic across the Iron …
ratchet down tensions and decrease the risk of nuclear war.15 We can also point, with Sarah Davies and others …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
nucle p1 arps race and the increased d .nger of nuclear war, the oil crisis and the increas'. \q up between … military blocs in ^ur pe. Theories of a limited nuclear war were an illusions accidert® could always happen …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
A file containing documents relating to anniversaries and commemorations in the Soviet Union. Subjects covered in the file include plans for the sixtieth anniversary of the Soviet Union; analysis of …
ii) [Reference to the doctrine of 'limited nuclear war in r/ Europe'], which in the Pengtagon's view … without SUCis. ck war escalating into a world nuclear war,/while avoiding massive retaliatory strikes … irrespons- ibly in these terms. But to contain nuclear war in practice within a limited framework is a …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
world assembly for peace and life, and aginst nuclear war, to be held in Prague next June (CTK in English …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
would necessarily make the world any safer; a nuclear war which did., not happen w a s better than a conventional …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
They, together with environmentalists, anti-nuclear war activists and all "peace-loving and democratic … plans for military superiority and a limited nuclear war in Europe are unrealistic and extremely dangerous … the demand to stop the arms race, prevent a nuclear war and continue the process of detente", and that …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
safely can, are not prepared to run the risk of nuclear war for the sake of it. Nor is it likely that they … safely can, are not prepared to run the risk of nuclear war for the sake of it. Nor is it likely that they …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
think that there oould be any "victory in a nuclear war. |<-A I I K A Bishop Soviet Section 23 November … be extremely important for the prevention of nuclear war, welcomed and supported the assumption of such … of effective measures for the prevention of nuclear war, the intensification of negotiations on halting … present day circumstances in 1 " averting nuclear war, welcomed and supported the Soviet Union's pledge … • I f « of effective measures to prevent nuclear war, intensification ' ' * ' of the talks on …
