An arms race occurs when countries increase their military resources to gain superiority over one another, such as the U.S. and Soviet Union in the Cold War.
Nature during the cold warThe editorship of David Davies (1973–1980) saw global nuclear arsenals grow and India join the nuclear club. Frank Barnaby examines how Davies addressed the cold war arms race in Nature.doi:10.1038/nature06283BarnabyNature...
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...
States, Britain and Australia attempt to establish military facilities used by the two nuclear-weapon states to safeguard their nuclear forces within the territory of a signatory to the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty, undermining regional strategic stability and provoking a regional arms race....
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. ...
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...
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...
States, Britain and Australia attempt to establish military facilities used by the two nuclear-weapon states to safeguard their nuclear forces within the territory of a signatory to the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty, undermining regional strategic stability and provoking a regional arms race.
The Cold War nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union is another example of a 20th-century arms race. The United States’ use of nuclear weapons to end World War II led to a determined and soon successful effort by the Soviet Union to acquire such weapons, followed...