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,...
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
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...
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...
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...
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.
The Non-Proliferation Treaty was signed on 1 July 1968, after the United States and Soviet Union reluctantly agreed "to pursue negotiations in good faith" to halt the nuclear arms race "at the earliest possible date" (the fig leaf they tried to hide behind), and to seek "a treaty on ge...
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...
Nuclear weapon - Soviet Union, Cold War, Arms Race: In the decade before World War II, Soviet physicists were actively engaged in nuclear and atomic research. By 1939 they had established that, once uranium has been fissioned, each nucleus emits neutrons
The Cold War between Communist-bloc nations and Western allies defined postwar politics. Learn about the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, NATO, the Space Race and more.