Nuclear Arms Race History Shorts: How the Atomic Bomb Was Used in WWII Though the United States and the Soviet Union were tentative allies during World War II, their alliance soured afterNazi Germanysurrendered in May 1945. The United States cast a wary eye over the Soviet Union’s quest for...
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...
This lesson plan explores the nuclear arms race and its impact on the world. Students will watch a video, participate in discussion questions and...
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 arms race was an important part of the Cold War. Both superpowers developed technology and used their nuclear power to build as many weapons as possible...But others feared the use of these weapons.”(Doc. 7). The arms race gave more power to both countries but it made them ...
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...
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. ...
To settle the debate, we turned to the radioactive legacy of the Cold War's nuclear arms race—specifically, carbon-14. Carbon-14 is a naturally occurring radioactive element. But in the 1950s and early 1960s, nuclear weapons tests by the US, Soviet Union, Great Britain, France and Chin...
So how was the Cold War fought? The Cold War was fought through Proxy Wars, the Nuclear Arms Race, spying, strong words and threats, prestige, and the Space Race. Both sides deeply mistrusted each other because they believed in two completely different types of government. The Eastern ...
This period of time is referred to as The Cold War. This section explores the major events of this period including; the development of the hydrogen bomb, the nuclear arms race, détente, nuclear proliferation and the nuclear world after the end of the Cold War. Part I: The Beginnings of...