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The Cold War

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Movie with Matthew Broderick where he plays Thermonuclear war with the NORADs computer.
Leader of the Soviet Union who killed more people than Hitler.
The Soviet version of our CIA
The B-52 _______ was the main delivery system in the 1950s.
Zone of protection created by the Soviet Union in case another war came.
The complete destruction of the planet if there was a nuclear exchange.
The assistant to the President of the U.S. who carries the nuclear launch codes.
The organization responsible for America's nuclear defense system.
Nuclear devices explode above their target, called an air _________.
Ground _______ is the spot the ICBM hits.
U.S. policy to stop the spread of Communism
An attack on any one member of this Western defensive alliance was an attack on all.
Name for the Cold War diplomacy involving nuclear weapons.
Fictional characters like James Bond actually represented the need for this.
About how many minutes you had once incoming ICBMs were spotted by our radar.
Having more than one nuclear warhead on a missile.
One of our most important ICBMs.
Civil Defense _________ were often times located in public buildings, like the Post Office
Wars, like the Korean fought by other nations supported by the superpowers.
North ________ is the new nuclear threat on the world stage.
The _________ Missile Crisis was one of the closest times we came to having a nuclear exchange with Russia.
Invented for the Defense Department so the different agencies could communicate in an emergency.
The branch of the Air Force after W.W. 2 who could launch a nuclear attack.
This would be an example of soft target
The fear that they might have more warheads than in our arsenal.
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The belief that if a national had a first ________ advantage, they might launch.
This president's doctrine espoused the support for free people around the world.
Tsar _______, the largest nuclear device ever detonated.
The curtain that Churchill said had fallen over Eastern Europe.
The U-2 was a high flying spy __________.
Type of U.S. nuclear submarine.
The assurance that launching a nuclear attack would mean national suicide.
The term Broken _________ was the code designation for a nuclear device that was accidentally launched or lost.
Name for on the first super computers.
Blast _________.
This measured the level of nuclear threat to the U.S. at any given time.
The tactic of taking the other superpower to the edge of a nuclear war.
Name for the Eastern European states controlled by the USSR.
This aspect of American foreign policy existed with the idea of discouraging the Soviets from expanding or attacking.
Mountain in Colorado where our missile defense headquarters is located.
This nuclear laboratory would be an example of a hard target.
Toxic to humans, this is what people die from after a nuclear attack - if they weren't incinerated already.
Equality that existed in terms of technology or numbers of nukes.
What school children were told to do in the event of a nuclear strike
Location where the first Atomic Bomb was dropped.
This arena of competition or race existed as scientific technology grew.
First Satellite launched by the Soviets
Planes, Missiles and Submarines as our delivery systems.
Allowed nuclear warheads to be sent anywhere in the world.
This is a ______ of the National Emergency Broadcast System. This is just a test!