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  2. The Day After - Wikipedia

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    The Day After is an American television film that first aired on November 20, 1983, on the ABC television network. The film postulates a fictional war between NATO and the Warsaw Pact over Germany that rapidly escalates into a full-scale nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union.

  3. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons - Wikipedia

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    The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), or the Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty, is the first legally binding international agreement to comprehensively prohibit nuclear weapons with the ultimate goal being their total elimination. It was adopted on 7 July 2017, opened for signature on 20 September 2017, and entered into force on 22 ...

  4. A Little Peace and Quiet - Wikipedia

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    She also silences news programs about recent arms talks between the United States and the Soviet Union and moves door-to-door anti-nuclear weapons activists away from her house while they are frozen in time. One evening, the radio announces that nuclear missiles are heading for the United States from the Soviet Union. When the radio reveals ...

  5. WATCH: Los Angeles suburb released this ominous video ... - AOL

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    The video then flashes to the girl walking down empty streets alone. The Ventura County Health Care Agency has published several guides on what to do in the event of a nuclear bomb hitting the area.

  6. Stability–instability paradox - Wikipedia

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    The stability–instability paradox is an international relations theory regarding the effect of nuclear weapons and mutually assured destruction.It states that when two countries each have nuclear weapons, the probability of a direct war between them greatly decreases, but the probability of minor or indirect conflicts between them increases.

  7. Factbox-Nuclear testing: Why did it stop, and when? - AOL

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    The United States opened the nuclear era in July 1945 with the test of a 20-kiloton atomic bomb at Alamogordo, New Mexico, in July 1945, and then dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese c

  8. Mutual assured destruction - Wikipedia

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    Mutual assured destruction (MAD) is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy which posits that a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by an attacker on a nuclear-armed defender with second-strike capabilities would result in the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender. [1]

  9. Expert warns US ‘may not be able to stop’ North Korean ...

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    In the wake of the continued weapons testing by North Korea, Pentagon conducted a missile defense test on May 30. Expert warns US ‘may not be able to stop’ North Korean nuclear missiles Skip ...