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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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 12 September 2017 English

This book by renowned economist Jean Drèze was published in 2017 by Oxford University Press. It is a collection of essays which study the infrastructure of hunger, poverty, health, and …

of modern technology (for instance, through nuclear war or climate change), which has reached frightening


LC: Library of Congress · 2016 English

Includes bibliographical references (pages 68-78). Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Indian Institute of Public Administration link, viewed September 1, 2021).

concerns, homosexuality, capital punishment, or nuclear war. By using the conceptual tools of meta- ethics


LC: Library of Congress · 2015 English

"21 May 2015." Includes bibliographical references (pages 22-23). In English. Title from PDF file as viewed on 02/06/2017.

advised its citizens to leave South Asia fearing a nuclear war. Clearly no peace- process could gain any momentum


LC: Library of Congress · 2012 English

"IC² Institute University of Texas at Austin, USA ; Defence Research & Development Organisation, Ministry of Defence ; FICCI." Also available online in PDF format from DRDO - FICCI ATAC …

is said that cockroaches can even survive a nuclear war. Indeed we know that they survive in kitchens


LC: Library of Congress · 2011 English

Shipping list no.: 2012-0001-P. Includes bibliographical references. "Serial no. 112-54."

in December 2001. This could have started a nuclear war between these two countries. Now China was involved


LC: Library of Congress · 2009 English

reduce the threats of nuclear war, we would do well to view our worst terrorist nightmares for what they are: subordinate threats that will be limited best if the risk of nuclear war is reduced and contained

………19 Neil Joeck 2. Reducing the Risk of Nuclear War in South Asia ….......................... taking the steps needed to reduce the threats of nuclear war, we would do well to view our worst terrorist threats that will be limited best if the risks of nuclear war are themselves reduced and contained. 14 ENDNOTES


LC: Library of Congress · 2009 English

India's transformation to modernize its military, obtain "strategic partnerships" with the United States and other nations, and expand its influence in the Indian Ocean and beyond includes a shift from …

doctrine considering the implications of a nuclear war with Pakistan. The failure to certify Pakistan


PDL: Panjab Digital Library · 1 January 2004 Panjabi

light. No one can deny that in the event of a nuclear war, the worst hit are going to be the people of


LC: Library of Congress · 9 May 2003 English

of people I never felt somehow threatened by nuclear war. I just didn't think it would happen. So I don't


LC: Library of Congress · 5 December 1995 English

That's right. The closest we have ever come to nuclear war, that is for sure. Q: You left in 1965? TAYLOR:


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