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Good Morning!!!!. NVC HOT ROC: Korean War 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?. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Good Morning!!!!
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