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  Armageddon Online - Nuclear Warfare or Atomic War
Nuclear war, or atomic war, is war in which nuclear weapons are used.
Notably the Western European arsenals have always been nearly insignificant compared to those of the superpowers, and it was the nuclear weapons of the USA and USSR which were of greatest concern to the world for the remainder of the 20th century.
The submarines and their missile systems were very expensive (one fully equipped nuclear powered nuclear missile submarine could easily cost more than the entire GNP of a third world nation), but the greatest cost came in the development of both sea- and land-based anti-submarine defenses and in improving and strengthening the chain of command.
www.armageddononline.org /nuclear_warfare.php   (2321 words)

  
 Nuclear Disarmement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Nuclear holocausts were a tremendously important part of my childhood.
It is healthy for an adolescent to picture his mortality in terms of a nuclear fireball sometime before his thirtieth birthday; it keeps the untidy, depressing future firmly off the agenda.
The sad demise of the nuclear bomb is also to blame for the chronic decline in Church attendance and religious belief.
www.aslan.demon.co.uk /bomb.htm   (1399 words)

  
 Where Are the World's Nuclear Weapons? - MSN Encarta
I was born three years after the nuclear bomb was first detonated and four years before the first thermonuclear bomb was perfected.
According to information compiled by the Nuclear Threat Initiative, an organization devoted to monitoring the status of the nuclear threat worldwide, nine countries had nukes by April 2004.
Nuclear arsenals grew like cancers during the Cold War because the world was divided into two hostile camps, both of which pursued a policy of mutually assured destruction--MAD for short.
encarta.msn.com /column_nukes_tamimhome/Whosgotnukes.html   (1162 words)

  
 Inadvertent Nuclear War - The India/Pakistan Armageddon
Since Pakistan and India have entered the Nuclear age just in the past few years, an even greater threat to not only those two countries who are willing to launch, but also the world as a whole from the fallout and carelessness involved.
In this threat, is an accidental possibility of that nuclear Armageddon, a possibility of an attack sparked against only a fear of another nuclear launch, not necessarily that the other country actually fired on the other.
Nuclear war seemed unthinkable in these past few years, as the threat of biological war seemed imminent through the gulf war, and now the war in Afghanistan.
www.rense.com /general18/inadvertent.htm   (443 words)

  
 Avoiding Armageddon . Nuclear Weapons | PBS
The destructive power of nuclear weapons was instantly apparent from the moment the first atomic bomb was tested in the desert near Alamagordo, New Mexico during World War II.
Since 1945, nuclear explosives have been the most feared of the weapons of mass destruction, in part because of their ability to cause enormous instantaneous devastation and because of the persistent effects of the radiation they emit - undetectable by unaided human senses.
Although many felt that the threat from nuclear weapons diminished with the end of the Cold War, the world today may be in more danger for a number of reasons.
www.pbs.org /avoidingarmageddon/learnTheFacts/learn_02_03.html   (386 words)

  
 Armageddon Online - Nuclear Suitcase Bombs
Both the USA and the USSR manufactured nuclear weapons small enough to fit into large backpacks during the Cold War, but neither have ever made public the existence or development of weapons small enough to fit into a suitcase.
The smallest nuclear warhead manufactured by the USA was the W-54, used for the Davy Crockett warhead which could be fired from a 120 mm recoilless rifle, and a backpack version called the Mk-54 SADM (Small Atomic Demolition Munition).
nuclear warhead miniaturized to such an extent that it could fit into a suitcase restricts the independent development of "suitcase nukes" to only nations with highly-advanced nuclear weapons programs which have performed many nuclear tests.
www.armageddononline.org /suitcase_bomb.php   (587 words)

  
 Barry L. Rothberg, Averting Armageddon: Preventing Nuclear Terrorism In The United States, 8 Duke J. of Comp. & Int'l ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Another possible initiator of nuclear terrorism could be a disgruntled Russian nationalist group, perhaps seeking revenge against the United States for its role in the collapse of the Soviet Empire, for helping the Mujahadin during the Afghan war, and for the United States' recent attempts to push the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) further eastward.
Nuclear weapons allow terrorists to go a step further: A terrorist with a nuclear weapon has a military capability equivalent to that of an advanced sovereign state.
The nuclear club is reduced to five, each with a relatively small and easily-secured arsenal, and a large portion of the warheads in each stockpile are at sea aboard submarines -- about the safest place for nuclear weapons.
www.law.duke.edu /journals/djcil/articles/DJCIL8P79.HTM   (17189 words)

  
 A Post-Sharon Nuclear Armageddon Plot?
Nuclear, or similar attacks on population-centers, such as Damascus, Baghdad, and Tehran, are currently pre-indicated targets for such actions.
Sharon may be mad in his own way, but, on the record of his past performance, he is the kind of ruthless madman who would operate within certain bounds, bounds which the religious fanatics behind him, are not likely to tolerate.
Behind the scenes, among those high-level Anglo-American geopolitical circles who developed the RAND Corporation's "nuclear chicken-game" scenario for the Middle East, decades ago, there are those who could, and would use the kind of Israeli "Masada complex" desperadoes inclined to take nuclear reprisals against capitals of nearby Islamic states.
www.larouchepub.com /other/2001/2828sharon_martyr.html   (1451 words)

  
 "Hydrogen Bomb" "Nuclear Armageddon" "Thermonuclear War" "Nuclear and Biological Weapons","Department of ...
This energy may be explosively released in two types of nuclear reactions: fission, in which heavy-element nuclei break down into fragments(which actually constitute lighter elements), and fusion, in which the nuclei of the lightest element (hydrogen) are squeezed together at high temperatures and fuse to form helium nuclei.
nuclear wars without resort to incredible threats of massive retaliation.However, once the widespread use of battlefield nuclear weapons by NATO was simulated in war games in the 1950s, it became apparent that they would result in such death and destruction that they could in no way be considered conventional.
Britain's rationale for maintaining a national nuclear force involved a combination of the political influence that could be brought to bear on its allies, especially the United States, and a claim to be contributing to the overall deterrent posture.
www.jaysnet.com /666nuke.html   (17632 words)

  
 The return of nuclear Armageddon - - MSNBC.com
For while a handful of think-tank analysts, congressional staffers and arms control activists kept their focus on nuclear issues, the idea of nuclear war - at least the kind that once gave children nightmares during the Cold War - seemed to have been banished from the agenda of mainstream politics and the news media.
Strobe Talbott, a deputy secretary of state and the man dispatched to Pakistan to reason with its government, conceded that the tests were “a setback for the search for peace and stability in the region and...
The nuclear testing and the sanctions that followed put an end to whatever hopes still existed in Washington of a new beginning with India, the world’s largest democracy but nonetheless a state that preferred for many complex reasons to trade with the Soviets during the Cold War.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/3340097   (1216 words)

  
 NRDC: Snapshots from the U.S. Nuclear War Plan - Page 13
All told, just 741 such warheads worldwide -- a fraction of the current U.S. arsenal -- could threaten with nuclear Armageddon more than half a billion people in the United States and other NATO nations, Russia, China, and worrisome "nuclear wannabes" such as Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Syria and Libya.
Nuclear arsenals far smaller than those currently deployed by the United States and Russia would remain a terrible threat to modern societies.
The truth is that nuclear weapons are simply indiscriminate weapons of mass destruction; all of the complex scenarios of the U.S. nuclear war plan ignore the grotesque results that would occur if nuclear weapons were used.
www.nrdc.org /nuclear/planphoto/planphoto13.asp   (183 words)

  
 Telegraph | News | Bush 'is planning nuclear strikes on Iran's secret sites'
The Bush administration is planning to use nuclear weapons against Iran, to prevent it acquiring its own atomic warheads, claims an investigative writer with high-level Pentagon and intelligence contacts.
President George W Bush is said to be so alarmed by the threat of Iran's hard-line leader, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, that privately he refers to him as "the new Hitler", says Seymour Hersh, who broke the story of the Abu Ghraib Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal.
The lack of reliable intelligence about these subterranean facilities, is fuelling pressure for tactical nuclear weapons to be included in the strike plans as the only guaranteed means to destroy all the sites simultaneously.
www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/04/09/wbush09.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/04/09/ixportaltop.html   (782 words)

  
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The conviction that nuclear Armageddon a inevitable provides a decisive motivation for supporters of the New Christian Right, not only in their personal lives (as an ''aid to holiness,'' Falwell explains) but for their political agenda.
"Armageddon" was unexpectedly thrust into the 1984 Presidential campaign on Oct. 21, the morning of the second debate between President Reagan and Walter Mondale.
But Armageddon is an important piece of the puzzle that, once assembled, may explain Ronald Reagan's vision of America's role in a nuclear age.
www.prop1.org /inaugur/85reagan/85rrarm.htm   (1755 words)

  
 The Swords of Armageddon
Chuck has been a strong advocate of openness in an area where the reflex for secrecy was established early, and where to this day secrecy is all too often used as a tool not to protect the national interest, but to advance political and institutional interests, often to the detriment of the public good.
It is not precisely a history, since most of this account consists of a chronological compilation of documents and document summaries rather than the sort of integrated narrative that the term "history" usually indicates.
The Swords of Armageddon: U.S. Nuclear Weapons Development since 1945 is the first and only comprehensive illustrated history of the post-World War II design, development, and testing of U.S. nuclear weaponry available to the public.
nuclearweaponarchive.org /News/Swords.html   (787 words)

  
 The In Nomine Collection: Nuclear Armageddon?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
There are a number of things that can cause DefCon to change immediately from 5 to 1, but all of them would take concerted effort to arrange (a nuclear strike would do it).
We've all heard the statistic that there's enough nuclear firepower to destroy all life on Earth many times over.
But all the world's nuclear missiles are aimed at a small number of targets.
www.sjgames.com /in-nomine/articles/new/GMs/tips/armageddon.html   (301 words)

  
 Doomsday Clock: Timeline | thebulletin.org
Since then, the minute hand of the clock has moved forward and back to reflect the global level of nuclear danger and the state of international security.
France and China acquire nuclear weapons; wars rage in the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent, and Vietnam; world military spending increases while development funds shrink.
The clock moves in response to the growing public understanding that nuclear weapons made war between the major powers irrational.
www.thebulletin.org /doomsday_clock/timeline.htm   (494 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Wizards of Armageddon (Stanford Nuclear Age Series): Books: Fred M. Kaplan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Kaplan found that after forty years, from the later 1940s until the early 1980s, when the book was published, intellectual thought went from assurances that nuclear war could be controlled; to a belief in the 1960s that controlling such a weapon is impossible.
This is the history of the strategy behind the U.S. nuclear arsenal, from the moment we dropped atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima through the Reagan years.
But for Kaplan, this project of rationalizing Armageddon is in the end nothing more than "a compelling illusion." The terror and uncertainty surrounding nuclear war comprised a chaos which couldn't be tamed.
www.amazon.com /Wizards-Armageddon-Stanford-Nuclear-Age/dp/0804718849   (2186 words)

  
 NUCLEAR DEVASTATION armageddon
It is therefore understood that a nuclear attack will commence from the East to the West immediately after the great tribulation and thus start reprisals.
For it is written: “…Their flesh shall dissolve while they stand on their feet, their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets, and their tongues shall dissolve in their mouth”.
North from the Equator, in the Northern Hemisphere of the Earth, is the belt of nuclear powers positioned from the East to the West.
www.lastweek.co.za /nuclear_dev.htm   (387 words)

  
 Cold War nuclear armageddon unveiled by Polish map - World - smh.com.au
THE nightmare of nuclear war in Europe - a spectre that haunted the world for half a century - has been revealed in terrible detail.
He described it as a "personally shattering experience", pointing to a long line of nuclear mushroom clouds neatly stamped along the Vistula River, where Soviet bloc commanders assumed that NATO tactical nuclear weapons would rain down to block reinforcements arriving from Russia.
On the map, Western Europe lay beneath a chilling overlay of large red mushroom clouds: Warsaw Pact nuclear strikes, using giant warheads to compensate for their relative lack of precision.
www.smh.com.au /news/world/cold-war-nuclear-armageddon-unveiled-by-polish-map/2005/11/26/1132966004721.html   (450 words)

  
 US War on Iran and Syria
Given the new nuclear doctrines dominating Bush's policy, and the extreme tensions generated by it, it would be something of a miracle if nuclear weapons were not used and this led to general nuclear war.
Iran's nuclear programme is peaceful and has no military purpose, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on today, adding he was ready to engage in dialogue with anybody.
Nuclear weapons are believed by the public to be unthinkable except as a last resort, because the use of them would probably escalate out of control and become a global holocaust.
www.nuclearfreenz.org.nz /USWarIran.htm   (7072 words)

  
 'Last Best Chance' To Save World, Fictional Film Tackles Scary Reality Of Nuclear Armageddon - CBS News
The world's nuclear weapons powers, missile defense and a history of the nuclear weapons age.
"Last Best Chance" also shows just how easily nuclear bombs can be moved once they're assembled, and how very difficult the weapons are to detect; which is why it's so important for terrorists to be stopped from getting the material in the first place.
And we do know we can reduce towards zero the risk that any nuclear weapon would be used by anyone at anytime.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/10/16/sunday/main947893_page2.shtml   (655 words)

  
 Russia Threatens Nuclear Armageddon [Free Republic]
The not-so-veiled threat of a nuclear Third World War was made by Vladimir Yakovlev, commander-in-chief of the Russian Strategic Missile Forces.
Clinton has been prepared to meet Putin somewhere short of half-way in accommodating the Russians' strong desire for both powers to cut back sharply on the number of strategic nuclear missiles in their arsenals.
Russia is continuing to develop and produce nuclear weapons and missiles, and in the past year has delpoyed two regiments of the TOPOL-M, the most sophisticated intercontinental nuclear missile yet devised.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3932d1244726.htm   (863 words)

  
 LINK-MAIL: The Nuclear Armageddon of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
It was the end of the world for the two Japanese cities back in 1945 when the nuclear holocaust destroyed them in a matter of seconds.
Several photographs have been taken in Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the nuclear holocaust in 1945.
The Nuclear Armageddon of Hiroshima and Nagasaki' link-mail letter to my mail box.
www.link-mail.com /40900.html   (529 words)

  
 Area51 Central - Armageddon - Nuclear war   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
If there was a world war 3, scientists say, it would probably bring the world to an end.
It would not be using loyal soldiers fighting for their country, it would be with only nuclear weapons.
With the amount of nuclear weapons on this planet, it is enough to destroy it, 6 times!
www.area51central.com /armageddon/nuclearwar   (291 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Smuggling Armageddon: The Nuclear Black Market in the Former Soviet Union and Europe: Books: Rensselaer W. ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Lee understatedly describes a dichotomy of nuclear crime in the modern-day Soviet states: inept would-be smugglers who sell bogus material coexist with the real threat of high-level corruption and a shadow network with both access to fissionable materials and the ability to move them undetected.
This is a good overview, giving some history of the smuggling of nuclear materials and of its setting in the Newly Independent States (NIS), including the overall criminal environment.
He examines known cases and assesses the ability of U.S. policy to prevent significant episodes in the future, although he notes that the "nuclear marketplace is heavily populated with disorganized peddlers, scam artists, and naive opportunists"?and, for the moment, no professionals.
www.amazon.com /Smuggling-Armageddon-Nuclear-Soviet-Europe/dp/0312224567   (1342 words)

  
 » Secret papers: BBC plan for surviving nuclear armageddon - RINF Alternative News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
In the event of all-out nuclear war, the BBC was to distract the nation by broadcasting a mix of music and light entertainment shows, secret papers released by the Home Office reveal.
The advent of television brought a new means of communication with the public during a nuclear war.
But memos and letters, written in the early 1960s and originally deemed too sensitive for publication until 2015, indicate tensions between the BBC and war Office over who should have control of these facilities.
www.rinf.com /columnists/news/secret-papers-bbc-plan-for-surviving-nuclear-armageddon   (1027 words)

  
 Coast To Coast AM Topics
Nuclear Installations in Pakistan Vulnerable – Al-Queda and Talibans Lurking for the Nukes
Nuclear Audit Says Sellafield Has 'Lost' 30kg of Plutonium
China's Nuclear Technologies is Source of All Nuke Proliferation to Pakistan, North Korea, Iran and Libya
www.stevequayle.com /C2C.index.nukes.test.html   (779 words)

  
 THE DANGERS OF FUNDAMENTALIST RELIGIONS
Petitioners were appalled at the Bush-Pentagon plan, which was justified with their Nuclear Posture Review, Dec 2001, and Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations, March 15, 2005 to "use nuclear weapons as a tool in warfare like any other".
The vice president's repetitive hyping of Saddam's nuclear ambitions in the summer and fall of 2002 as well as his persistence in advertising bogus Saddam-Qaeda ties were fed by the rogue intelligence operation set up in his own office.
Millions of people know that a nuclear holocaust has almost happened on several occasions, but they do nothing to prevent it or try and change the situation..
www.nuclearfreenz.org.nz /DangersFundamentalism.htm   (7037 words)

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