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At the end of 1947, the AEC established a Raw Materials Division to flood the nuclear-war machine with as much uranium as possible, as fast as possible, and as economically as possible.
Yellow Dirt Judy Pasternak 2010
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Perhaps the most concrete sign of the increased prominence of China in U.S. nuclear-war plans is the transfer of five nuclear-armed submarines from their Atlantic base at Kings Bay, Georgia, to the Pacific base at Bangor, Washington; two-thirds of the U.S. strategic submarine fleet is now based in the Pacific.
Superiority Complex 2007
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Perhaps the most concrete sign of the increased prominence of China in U.S. nuclear-war plans is the transfer of five nuclear-armed submarines from their Atlantic base at Kings Bay, Georgia, to the Pacific base at Bangor, Washington; two-thirds of the U.S. strategic submarine fleet is now based in the Pacific.
Superiority Complex 2007
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In 1997, the Clinton administration made the first major change in presidential guidance for nuclear-war plans since the early 1980s, broadening the spectrum of Chinese targets.
Superiority Complex 2007
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In 1997, the Clinton administration made the first major change in presidential guidance for nuclear-war plans since the early 1980s, broadening the spectrum of Chinese targets.
Superiority Complex 2007
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In 1997, the Clinton administration made the first major change in presidential guidance for nuclear-war plans since the early 1980s, broadening the spectrum of Chinese targets.
Superiority Complex 2007
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Perhaps the most concrete sign of the increased prominence of China in U.S. nuclear-war plans is the transfer of five nuclear-armed submarines from their Atlantic base at Kings Bay, Georgia, to the Pacific base at Bangor, Washington; two-thirds of the U.S. strategic submarine fleet is now based in the Pacific.
Superiority Complex 2007
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The United States will want some restraints on Saddam's chemical - and nuclear-war potential.
Will He Blink? 2008
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Each country has nuclear-armed missiles that can be delivered against the other within minutes — and in America's nuclear-war plans the overwhelming number of targets remain inside Russia.
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And, as you say, even superflu, even zombies which perhaps we're so obsessed with now because we no longer have a real focus for all that nuclear-war anxiety? is just not even close to strategic nuclear war.
The Apocalypse Theodora Goss 2008
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