| ID | 173029 |
| Title Proper | Plan A |
| Other Title Information | how a nuclear war could progress |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | ACT |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Seventy-five years ago, the United States tested the first nuclear weapon in New Mexico and then used one to destroy Hiroshima and another to destroy Nagasaki. As devastating as they were, those atomic bombs were small by today’s standards, each exploding with just a tenth of the explosive yield of typical warheads now deployed on missiles, submarines, and planes by a handful of countries. Fortunately, no nuclear weapons have been used in combat since the bombings in Japan, but the risk of nuclear war ebbed and flowed throughout the Cold War. It has been increasing in the past three years. The United States and Russia have abandoned long-standing nuclear arms control treaties, started to develop new kinds of nuclear weapons, and expanded the circumstances in which they might use nuclear weapons. However a nuclear exchange might start, it could quickly escalate from a local disaster into a global catastrophe. |
| `In' analytical Note | Arms Control Today Vol. 50, No.6; Jul-Aug 2020: p.23-26 |
| Journal Source | Arms Control Today 2020-07 50, 6 |
| Key Words | Nuclear War |