In November 1997, the highly respected journal “Scientific American” published an article “Taking Nuclear Weapons Off Hair-Trigger” (pp.74-81), which included a “Nuclear Weapons on Hair-trigger Timeline for Catastrophe.” The following are the various time elements for U.S. and Russian nuclear attacks on each other’s homelands:
U.S., Russia need to reverse arms race
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 | 10:00 a.m. CDT;
updated 5:55 a.m. CDT, Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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