COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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Stockpiled (in storage)
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Retired (needs to be taken apart)
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Ready to launch
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It has already exploded in a city.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Deployment means keeping the warheads. that contain nuclear explosives attached to. delivery vehicles, ballistic missiles or. aircraft, and having them ready to be used. to attack a designated target.
Detailed explanation-2: -US land-based missiles can reportedly be launched within 5 minutes of a presidential decision to do so and submarine-based missiles within 15 minutes.
Detailed explanation-3: -When a nuclear device is exploded, a large fireball is created. Everything inside of this fireball vaporizes, including soil and water, and is carried upwards. This creates the mushroom cloud that we associate with a nuclear blast, detonation, or explosion.
Detailed explanation-4: -Missiles are launched About five minutes may elapse from the president’s decision until intercontinental ballistic missiles blast out of their silos, and about fifteen minutes until submarine missiles shoot out of their tubes. Once fired, the missiles and their warheads cannot be called back.