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What you need to know about modern nuclear war

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Science Friday host Ira Flatow spoke to three nuclear experts to learn more about what modern nuclear war might look like.

Stanislav Petrov made a split-second decision that probably averted a nuclear conflagration. “I told myself I won’t be the cause of World War III. I won’t. Simple as that,” he said.

The unsung Soviet officer who averted nuclear war

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A new multiple launch rocket system is test fired in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang March 4, 2016.

Some Americans are panicking about North Korea. Here’s why South Koreans aren’t.

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