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1. NVC

2. HOT ROC: Korean War

3. Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War

Essential Question: What threat did nuclear weapons pose during the Cold War?

HOT ROC: Korean War

Which textbook do you find the most trustworthy? Why?

Why not a “Hot” War?

• Brinkmanship: willingness to go to the brink of war without going over the edge– “ready to go to war to

keep the peace”• Result of an nuclear

arms race– Competition to produce

the most and the best nukes

Threat of Global Destruction

• Deterrence: strategy to create a nuclear arsenal so deadly your enemy will not dare to attack you– Mutually Assured

Destruction (MAD): neither side willing to actually fight

– Hydrogen Bomb (H-Bomb): a new more powerful type of nuke

Fission vs. FusionAtom Bomb (Fission) Hydrogen Bomb (Fusion)

Nuclear Detonations

• Nuclear tests common during the Cold War– Bikini Atoll– Nevada Test Site

• 2000+ nuclear weapons detonated between 1945-today– http://www.youtube.co

m/watch?v=_W_lLhBt8Vg

Atomic Artillery

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QsB83fAtNQE

Operation Crossroads

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvjmsU48TSc

The Baker Event

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gYbVQY0cBWk

Castle Bravo

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=T2I66dHbSRA

Tsar Bomb

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg9wbHfvoDM