Nucflash

Nucflash is a term (code word) from the terminology of the US military and describes the possibility of an unintentional triggering of a nuclear warhead or the unauthorized use of nuclear weapons . The feature film WarGames describes such an event. Similar scenarios can be found in the films Dr. Strange, or how I learned to love the bomb and in the novel " The Bedford Incident ". No information is known about an actual Nucflash message.

literature

• nucflash. In: Jonathon Green: The A-Z of Nuclear Jargon. Routledge, 2014. ISBN 978-1-317-90824-1 , p. 120. ( limited preview in Google book search)
• Code word "Nucflash" ; in: Stern Magazin , Volume 40, Gruner + Jahr , 1987, p. 280 f.
• Keith Douglass: Nucflash , Berkley Books, New York 2011 [2. New edition] ISBN 978-0-425-24818-8
• Duncan McClam: Nucflash. Military Nuclear Accidents. lulu.com, 2015. ISBN 978-1-329-22644-9

Related terms

• Broken Arrow
• Bent Spear
• Empty quiver
• Dull Sword
• Faded Giant

Web links

• AFMAN 10-206

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hunsrück-Forum - Journal for Democracy and Peace, No. 23, January-March 1989, PDF file, p. 6
2. ↑ How are nuclear accidents defined?  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.