The Hazards of Operations Involving Nuclear Weapons during the Cold War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12748243 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Milton Leitenberg (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 207-249 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Cold War Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1520-3972 • E-ISSN: 1531-3298 |
| Publisher | The MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1162/jcws_a_00826 |
| OpenAlex | W2895440354 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 24 |
This article provides an overview of the perils of U.S. and Soviet nuclear war planning during the Cold War. In particular, the article discusses instances of false alarms, when one side or the other picked up indications of an imminent attack by the other side and had to take measures to determine whether the indicators were accurate. None of these incidents posed a large danger of an accidental nuclear war, but they illustrate the inherent risks of the war preparations that both the United States and the Soviet Union took for their immense nuclear arsenals
Accidental · Cold war · Computer security · Nuclear warfare · Nuclear weapon · Physics · Political science · Politics · Soviet union · Computer Science · Law · Nuclear Issues and Defense · Radioactive contamination and transfer · Twentieth Century Scientific Developments
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0.33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |