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During the [[Cold War]] (and even since), fiction has made some [[Did Not Do the Research|inaccurate assumptions]] about nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons policy. Also, it made for more exciting drama when writers could pretend that it was easy for some American or Soviet [[General Ripper]] type to [[Nuke'Em|get control of his country's nukes]]. However, as the comments below indicate, actual policies changed quite a bit during the [[Cold War]] depending on which side one is talking about, so there can be a lot of factual leeway in such situations, especially since many of the facts below have come out only since the 1990s.

See [[You Fail Nuclear Physics Forever]] for errors involving nuclear technology.

== [[Anime and Manga]] ==

* In ''[[Future War 198X]]'', the inventor of America's new Missile Defense System is kidnapped by Soviet spies. When the Americans realize that he is being taken back to Russia by submarine, they figure that it would be better to kill their greatest inventor than to let his creations fall into enemy hands. They send out a sea-based nuclear warhead to destroy the boat, thinking that it will be a small enough accident that it can be blamed on an accident aboard. The result is far more enormous than anticipated, setting off the entire [[World War III|horrific war]] the rest of the movie narrates.

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