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  2. The Moscow rules - Wikipedia

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    The Moscow rules are rules-of-thumb said to have been developed during the Cold War to be used by spies and others working in Moscow. The rules are associated with Moscow because the city developed a reputation as being a particularly harsh locale for clandestine operatives who were exposed. The list may never have existed as written.

  3. Duck and cover - Wikipedia

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    The dubious assumption that "only the cockroaches" would survive the post-war fallout environment was frequently used in an attempt to criticize Duck and Cover during the height of the Cold War, contextually at a time when discussion of a total war involved the much greater US-Soviet arsenal of nuclear weapons that were then in existence.

  4. Survival Under Atomic Attack - Wikipedia

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    Copy of Survival Under Atomic Attack issued by the Cleveland office of Civil Defense.. Survival Under Atomic Attack was the title of an official United States government booklet released in 1951 by the Executive Office of the President, the National Security Resources Board (document 130), and the Civil Defense Office.

  5. Template:Cold War Kids - Wikipedia

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    It can be transcluded on pages by placing {{Cold War Kids}} below the standard article appendices. Initial visibility This template's initial visibility currently defaults to autocollapse , meaning that if there is another collapsible item on the page (a navbox, sidebar , or table with the collapsible attribute ), it is hidden apart from its ...

  6. Protect and Survive - Wikipedia

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    In print, Raymond Briggs' graphic novel When the Wind Blows (later adapted as an animated film, radio and stage play) obliquely mentions various aspects of the Protect and Survive programme. The leaflet series became the subject of detailed and scholarly criticism from anti-nuclear authors (such as E. P. Thompson ), who produced a ...

  7. Nuclear War Survival Skills - Wikipedia

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    Nuclear War Survival Skills or NWSS, by Cresson Kearny, is a civil defense manual. It contains information gleaned from research performed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory during the Cold War , as well as from Kearny's extensive jungle living and international travels.

  8. Agreement on the Prevention of Nuclear War - Wikipedia

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    The Prevention of Nuclear War Agreement [1] was created to reduce the danger of nuclear war between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The agreement was signed at the Washington Summit, on June 22, 1973. The United States and the U.S.S.R. agreed to reduce the threat of a nuclear war and establish a policy to restrain ...

  9. Outline of the Cold War - Wikipedia

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    Cold War participants – the Cold War primarily consisted of competition between the Eastern Bloc and the Western Bloc.While countries and organizations explicitly aligned to one or the other are listed below, this does not include those involved in specific Cold War events, such as North Korea, South Korea, and Vietnam.