Nuclear warfare

Nuclear war, or atomic war, is war in which nuclear weapons are used.

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War - Nuclear weapons

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In general the discussion can be broken down further into subgroups. In the limited nuclear war (sometimes attack or exchange) only small numbers of weapons are used in a tactical exchange aimed primarily at opposing military forces. In the full-scale nuclear war large numbers of weapons are used in an attack aimed at an entire country, both military and civilian targets being "fair game". Soon after the first use of atomic weapons, a doomsday clock was created by the Board of Directors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists as a symbolic countdown to full-scale nuclear war.

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Military - Country - Doomsday clock - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

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