In the second presidential debate that year, President Reagan was actually asked to clarify his position on "nuclear Armageddon."

Around the time when nuclear Armageddon was indefinitely postponed, Westerners suddenly started to worry about environmental catastrophe.

There has been some talk of impending nuclear Armageddon, and they decide to stay until the air clears - or the world ends.

In 1960, at a time when nuclear Armageddon was not unthinkable, she felt the need to do something, she said later.

Are the chances of an all-out nuclear Armageddon rising?

Television did not exist when he was born, and the possibility of nuclear Armageddon within his own lifetime was something no one then could have predicted.

But there's good reason to believe machines left over from a nuclear Armageddon won't be friendly as lap dogs.

Explanations included nuclear armageddon, local fires, supernatural forces, a solar eclipse and alien invasion.

They unleashed a nuclear Armageddon and came close to wiping themselves out.

If the strategic insurance policy fails, but the superpowers stop short of nuclear Armageddon, combatants will fight the war with tactical weapons.