THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER AND THE COLD WAR
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Massive Retaliation
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Brinkmanship
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Containment
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Hydrogen Bomb
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Detailed explanation-1: -Perhaps the best-documented case of brinkmanship was the Soviet placement of nuclear missiles in Cuba in 1962 and the U.S. response, which is now referred to as the Cuban missile crisis.
Detailed explanation-2: -In a brinkmanship crisis, states exert coercive pressure on each other by taking steps that raise the risk that events will go out of control. This is a real and shared risk that the confrontation will end in a catastrophic nuclear exchange.
Detailed explanation-3: -A prime example of brinkmanship during the Cold War was the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962), a 13-day conflict between the United States, the Soviet Union, and Cuba. Both superpowers were armed with nuclear weapons and practiced brinkmanship during the conflict.
Detailed explanation-4: -The dangers of using brinkmanship in this manner lay in the possibility that there might be an issue with communication or that the other side might choose to escalate the situation rather than fold, which could lead to a cycle of continuous escalation, that would eventually culminate in a disaster.