6 - Cold WAR!

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Across
  1. 2. Soviet thermonuclear test detonated in 1955.
  2. 4. Core rationale for maintaining nuclear arsenals during the era.
  3. 6. 1985 summit city for Reagan–Gorbachev.
  4. 10. 1986 conference on confidence-building measures across Europe.
  5. 14. Three-letter acronym for Reagan’s 1983 “Star Wars” plan.
  6. 15. 1989 summit widely seen as signaling the Cold War’s end.
  7. 16. Clock symbol measuring perceived proximity to global catastrophe.
  8. 17. Treaty eliminating ground-launched missiles of 500–5,500 km (1987).
  9. 19. 1968 treaty to prevent nuclear proliferation.
  10. 20. Russian heavy ICBM designated RS-28.
  11. 21. U.S. grand strategy advocated by the Long Telegram.
Down
  1. 1. U.S. statesman who proposed UN control of atomic energy (1946).
  2. 3. Word completing “_____ Response,” Kennedy’s 1961 strategy.
  3. 5. Soviet ICBM family associated with RS-12M.
  4. 7. Early U.S. ICBM first flight-tested in 1959.
  5. 8. Doctrine positing that nuclear war ensures mutual annihilation.
  6. 9. 1972 treaty limiting anti-missile defenses.
  7. 10. 1991 accords setting ceilings on strategic warheads and delivery systems.
  8. 11. Author of the “Long Telegram” urging a hardline toward the USSR (1946).
  9. 12. Solid-fueled U.S. ICBM entering service in the 1960s.
  10. 13. U.S. journalist who first used the term “Cold War” (1943).
  11. 15. Codename of the first U.S. hydrogen bomb test (1952).
  12. 18. U.S. ICBM family succeeding Atlas in service.