cultural impact of the cold war
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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 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Cultural Impact ofThe 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
• Waited 5 minutes, then called another false alarm
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
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 x 24 x 12 = 5,184 nuclear warheads• That equals 1.8 gigatons of TNT
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.”