HISTORY
THE COLD WAR ERA
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A race to see how quickly soldiers can carry weapons across the battlefield.
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China and Japan racing to stockpile weapons.
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A running race between athletes from the U.S. and the Soviet Union during the Olympics.
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A competition between the Soviet Union and the U.S. to build the most powerful weapons.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The nuclear arms race was perhaps the most alarming feature of the Cold War competition between the United States and Soviet Union. Over the decades, the two sides signed various arms control agreements as a means to manage their rivalry and limit the risk of nuclear war.
Detailed explanation-2: -The nuclear arms race was an arms race competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies during the Cold War.
Detailed explanation-3: -What caused the nuclear arms race? The initial event that set off the nuclear arms race was the WWII bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Soviets saw that the United States had gained the upper hand with the development of the atomic bomb and they set out to create their own.