Nuclear Arms Race History Shorts: How the Atomic Bomb Was Used in WWII The United States' decision to use the atomic bomb was made after great debate, but still led to a massive loss of human life. Though the United States and the Soviet Union were tentative allies during World War II,...
WASHINGTON —Just when you thought the arms race, if not the nuclear era, were relics of Cold War history, a breakdown last month of negotiations in Geneva for a comprehensive Test Ban Treaty serves as a discomfiting reminder that nuclear weapons are alive and well. This, even as the Inte...
and 10 Western European nations were the ones who signed the treaty. The goal of the treaty was to prevent the expansion of the Soviets, and to protect West Germany. This lead to the nuclear arms race between the U.S and Russia. In 1949, theSoviet Uniontested an atomic bomb,…show mor...
The Nuclear Crisis: The Arms Race, Cold War Anxiety, and the German Peace Movement of the 1980smidrkal, VáclavCentre: Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies of Central Europe in the 19th & 20th Centuries / Sted
The name "Cold War" was coined by the English writer George Orwell, after the dropping of the first atomic bombs in 1945 had ushered in a new world also foreseen by H.G. Wells. It described a world where the two major powers—each possessing nuclear weapons and thereby threatened with mu...
The Cold War lasted from the end of World War II right up to the early 1990s, although the Soviet Union and the USA never actually engaged in direct battle. Instead, the Cold War was expressed through weapons development (the nuclear arms race), technological development (the space race), ...
What was the arms race of the Cold War? The arms race during the Cold War was between the Soviet Union and the United States. Strategic weapons systems, including nuclear weapons, were amassed to give one side a military advantage.
led by researchers led by Joyce Ong from Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA, Steven Campana from the University of Iceland, and Mark Meekan from the Australian Institute of Marine Science in Perth, Western Australia, turned to the radioactive legacy of the Cold War’s nuclear arms race. ...
During theCold War, both the United States and theSoviet Unionmanufactured anddeployedtens of thousands of tactical nuclear weapons. Those included nuclear artillery shells, nuclear antiaircraft missiles, and nuclear antitank rounds. However, none were ever used in combat. For destroying small targets...
Cold War - Arms Race, Ideology, Superpowers: The Cold War began to break down in the late 1980s during the administration of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.