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.”