USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Arms Races Continue The Cold War ended in 1991 following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Berlin Wall. But years earlier, in 1987, the United States and the Soviet Union had signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) to limit the scope and reach of all types of missiles.

Detailed explanation-2: -START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) was a bilateral treaty between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the United States of America on the limitation and reduction of strategic offensive arms. The treaty was signed on 31 July 1991 and entered into force on 5 December 1994.

Detailed explanation-3: -During the Cold War, conventional arms-control efforts were largely focused on major conventional weapons, on the unilateral or multilateral efforts of major exporting states, and a focus on controlling the spread of weapons and weapon technologies primarily.

Detailed explanation-4: -Known as the Cold War, this conflict began as a struggle for control over the conquered areas of Eastern Europe in the late 1940s and continued into the early 1990s. Initially, only the United States possessed atomic weapons, but in 1949 the Soviet Union exploded an atomic bomb and the arms race began.