Where initial reactions focused on the morality and efficacy of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the part they played in precipitating the Cold War, post‐revisionist historians associated the nuclear arms race with the Soviet–America distrust and détente even as they credited it ...
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 reinforce their knowledge with an activity. They will also take a quiz to check for understanding. Learning Objectives After this lesson students will...
The Space Race The Soviet’s launch of the firstSputniksatellite on October 4, 1957, stunned and concerned the United States and the rest of the world, as it took the Cold War arms race soon became theSpace Race. PresidentDwight D. Eisenhowertried to tone down the rhetoric over the succes...
firmly pursue its nuclear strategy of self-defense, refrain from participating in any form of nuclear arms race, continue to maintain its nuclear force at a minimal level required for its national security, and continue to work to promote international nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, said...
The Fateful Choice: Nuclear Arms Race or Nuclear Weapons-Free World May 2, 2021 Nuclear War and the Future of Humanity. Conversations with Fidel Castro April 25, 2021 Americans Are Complacent When It Comes to the Dangers of Nuclear War ...
Nuclear trains were once considered a relic of the Cold War. Russia seemed to put more hopes of restarting nuclear negotiations with the next US administration, as RT described President-elect Joe Biden as "a supporter of nuclear de-escalation" But now the secretive locomotives could be set fo...
The radioactive legacy of the arms race reveals true age of the world’s largest fish. Atomic bomb tests conducted during the Cold War have helped scientists for the first time correctly determine the age of whale sharks. The discovery, published in the journalFrontiers in Marine Science, will...
In 1961 the Soviets placed the first man, Yuri Gargarin, into orbit as the nuclear-arms race combined with the space race as the key instruments of cold war rivalry between the Soviet Union and the United States. But the critical event of the 1960s was the 1962 discovery that Russians ...
How ‘Duck-and-Cover’ Drills Channeled America’s Cold War Anxiety Amid an escalating arms race, civil defense drills offered comically simple strategies for surviving an atomic attack. Read more Nuclear Fallout Shelters Were Never Going to Work ...