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Released during the Cold War era, Raid Over Moscow is an action game in which the player (an American space pilot) has to stop three Soviet nuclear attacks on North America, then fight his way into and destroy a nuclear facility located in Moscow 's Kremlin. According to the game's storyline, the United States is unable to respond to the attack ...
Players. 2–4. Playing time. 180'. Age range. 12+. Fortress America is a strategic board wargame designed by Michael Gray [1] and published in 1986 by Milton Bradley. The game depicts a 21st Century United States being invaded on three sides by three world powers. Fortress America was the fourth of five games in the Gamemaster series.
Nuclear safety in the United States. A clean-up crew working to remove radioactive contamination after the Three Mile Island accident. Nuclear safety in the United States is governed by federal regulations issued by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). The NRC regulates all nuclear plants and materials in the United States except for ...
Gold Codes. The Gold Code is the launch code for nuclear weapons provided to the President of the United States in their role as commander-in-chief of the armed forces. [1] In conjunction with the nuclear football, the Gold Codes allow the president to authorize a nuclear attack. [2] Gold Codes, as well as a separate nuclear football, are also ...
The vulnerability of nuclear plants to deliberate attack is of concern in the area of nuclear safety and security. Nuclear power plants, civilian research reactors, certain naval fuel facilities, uranium enrichment plants, fuel fabrication plants, and even potentially uranium mines are vulnerable to attacks which could lead to widespread radioactive contamination.
A new nuclear doctrine would "clearly set the conditions for Russia to transition to using nuclear weapons," he warned - and said such scenarios included conventional missile strikes against Moscow.
Blast Corps is a single-player action video game. The player controls vehicles to destroy buildings, farms, and other structures in the path of a runaway nuclear missile carrier. The player fails if the carrier collides with an object. The eight demolition vehicles vary in the way they clear structures: the bulldozer rams, the dump truck drifts ...
The nuclear weapons tests of the United States were performed from 1945 to 1992 as part of the nuclear arms race. The United States conducted around 1,054 nuclear tests by official count, including 216 atmospheric, underwater, and space tests. [ 1 ][ notes 1 ] Most of the tests took place at the Nevada Test Site (NNSS/NTS) and the Pacific ...