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Cultural Impact of The Cold War

Cultural Impact of The Cold War. Stanislav Petrov . September 26, 1983 USSR had recently shot down a Korean airliner Ballistic Missile Early Warning System Detected an inbound warhead from the US Dismissed as false alarm Then detected 4 more missiles

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Cultural Impact of The Cold War

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  1. Cultural Impact ofThe Cold War

  2. Stanislav Petrov September 26, 1983 USSR had recently shot down a Korean airliner Ballistic Missile Early Warning System Detected an inbound warhead from the US Dismissed as false alarm Then detected 4 more missiles Waited 5 minutes, then called another false alarm

  3. Vasiliy Arkhipov October 27, 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis US Navy surrounded a Russian Foxtrot class submarine Then they dropped practice depth charges on it Russians thought the attack was real and loaded a nuclear torpedo

  4. 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. • Do I know how to stop serious bleeding? • Do I know the first-aid treatment for serious burns? • Do I know how to make a fire-resistant solution for drapes and curtains? • Do I know how to cope with an incendiary bomb? • Do I know where and how to search for casualties in a damaged building? • Do I know how to improvise rescue tools out of every day household equipment? • Do I know how to provide a safe emergency supply of drinking water? • Do I know how to purify water? • Do I have a safe emergency supply of food? • Do I recognize the air-raid warning signals? • Do I know how to protect myself from atomic blast and heat? • Do I know how to protect myself from radioactivity? • Do I know how to keep radioactivity out of food and water?

  5. Duck and Cover

  6. 1963 Civil Defense Pamphlet

  7. Nuclear Bomb Testing

  8. Nuclear Bombs

  9. Trident Program • 18 subs carrying 24 missiles with 12 warheads • 18 x 24 x 12 = 5,184 nuclear warheads • That equals 1.8 gigatons of TNT

  10. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb • 1961 • 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. • “Better dead than red.”

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