COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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Because they both had more than enough to destroy the world many times.
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Because they both wanted more nuclear weapons.
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Because they wanted to make these nuclear weapons more powerful.
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Because they both wanted to “win” the nuclear arms race.
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Detailed explanation-1: -For deterrence to be credible, the United States maintains the amount and types of nuclear weapons that it needs to convince adversaries that can strike these targets if necessary.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Russia and the U.S. together hold more than 90% of the world’s nuclear weapons. The New START treaty limits the two countries to 1, 550 warheads apiece and allows each to inspect the other’s nuclear sites up to 18 times a year.
Detailed explanation-4: -Russia possesses a total of 5, 977 nuclear warheads as of 2022, the largest stockpile of nuclear warheads in the world; the second-largest stockpile is the United States’ 5, 428 warheads. Russia’s deployed missiles (those actually ready to be launched) number about 1, 588, second to the United States’ 1, 644.