History GCSE
Cold War threat and nuclear deterrence
What Cold War threat and nuclear deterrence means in History GCSE, as defined for OCR.
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A period in the 1950s and 1960s of nuclear threat and deterrence affecting Britain, not a direct shooting war in Britain.
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