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Khan Academy: Atomic Fears and the Arms Race

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Looks at the nuclear arms race in the 1950s as the United States and the USSR both stockpiled nuclear weapons. Includes 1951 propaganda video showing schoolchildren how to 'Duck and Cover' in the event of a nuclear attack. [9:15]

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atomic fears, civil defense, hydrogen bomb, massive retaliation, nuclear annihilation, nuclear arms race, nuclear proliferation, preparing for nuclear bomb, bulletin of the atomic scientists, doomsday clock, duck and cover, h-bomb, nsc-68, national security council, arms race

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