Cultural Impact of The Cold War. Stanislav Petrov September 26, 1983 September 26, 1983 USSR had recently shot down a Korean airliner USSR had recently.

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Cultural Impact of The Cold War

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

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

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. 1. Do I know how to stop serious bleeding? 2. Do I know the first-aid treatment for serious burns? 3. Do I know how to make a fire-resistant solution for drapes and curtains? 4. Do I know how to cope with an incendiary bomb? 5. Do I know where and how to search for casualties in a damaged building? 6. Do I know how to improvise rescue tools out of every day household equipment? 7. Do I know how to provide a safe emergency supply of drinking water? 8. Do I know how to purify water? 9. Do I have a safe emergency supply of food? 10. Do I recognize the air-raid warning signals? 11. Do I know how to protect myself from atomic blast and heat? 12. Do I know how to protect myself from radioactivity? 13. Do I know how to keep radioactivity out of food and water?

Duck and Cover

1963 Civil Defense Pamphlet

Nuclear Bomb Testing

Nuclear Bombs

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

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Directed by Stanley Kubrick 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. 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.” “Better dead than red.”