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Arms Race: History, Nuclear Arms Race

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  • Since dawn of humanity, mankind has been involved in warfare against each other.
  • For waging warfare, the belligerents need weapons, preferably ones that are better than the other side.
  • Warring parties have constantly been trying to improve their war fighting capacities, by acquiring better weapons and developing better strategies.
  • An arms race however, is marked by a desire for quick procurement of deadly weaponry over a short period of time by two or other nation states.
  • It is led by a desire for a superior military t…

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Arms Race and Cold War

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  • Following World War II, the Cold War was a time of diplomatic instability between the Soviet Union and its satellite states (the Eastern European countries) and the US and its allies (the Western European countries) .
  • Following World War II, the world was split into two power blocs, each controlled by two superpowers: The United States and the Soviet Union. the Soviet Union and the United States of America.
  • The ideological conflict between the imperialist United States and the communist Soviet Union was the main focus of the two superpowers. Since there was no large-scale combat between the two sides, the word “Cold” was coined.

The Causes of the Cold War

  • Allied countries (the United States, the Un…

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