HIST 1080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Nuclear Warfare, Normal Accidents, Edward Teller
19 Jan 2018
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The possibility of nuclear war provided models for largescale disaster response, including nuclear accidents. The technologies of nuclear warfare have possibly made those accidents more likely, and even normal. The context: ww2 is over but devastation has been created on a global scale. 60 million people have died as result of ww2: before ww2, central power laid in europe, europe has no longer that capability. There is completion to hold that power: between usa and allies vs. russia and allies, capitalist west vs. communist east, shows struggle over life, struggle over military and technological power. Wednesday, january 17, 2018: suspicion on both parties about intentions of leadership. To make sure it works: signal to enemies. Tests bombs where owned by usa but lacks any laws or bene ts of being part of. In 1954, the usa most powerful explosion test to date, the castlebravo.
