USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -To help discourage Soviet communist expansion, the United States built more atomic weaponry. But in 1949, the Soviets tested their own atomic bomb, and the Cold War nuclear arms race was on.

Detailed explanation-2: -They both spent billions and billions of dollars trying to build up huge stockpiles of nuclear weapons. Near the end of the Cold War the Soviet Union was spending around 27% of its total gross national product on the military.

Detailed explanation-3: -During the Cold War, the Soviet Union and the United States became locked in an arms race. An arms race is. an event in which two nations race to the brink of war, but avoid declaring war. a competition between nations to achieve a more powerful weapons arsenal.

Detailed explanation-4: -This destructive power and the decades-long arms race that it caused left the Soviet Union with a huge military arsenal that turned out virtually worthless, and a devastated economy with tremendous budget deficit and very low living standards.