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    The nuclear arms race between the United States and Soviet Union was a central aspect of the Cold War. Both nations massively increased their stockpiles of nuclear weapons throughout the 1950s and spent billions developing more powerful bombs like the hydrogen bomb. Initially only the US had nuclear weapons, but the arms race began in 1949 when the Soviet Union tested its first atomic bomb. By the 1980s, the US and Russia each had thousands of planes capable of delivering nuclear bombs as part of the escalating arms buildup during the Cold War.

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    The nuclear arms race between the United States and Soviet Union was a central aspect of the Cold War. Both nations massively increased their stockpiles of nuclear weapons throughout the 1950s and spent billions developing more powerful bombs like the hydrogen bomb. Initially only the US had nuclear weapons, but the arms race began in 1949 when the Soviet Union tested its first atomic bomb. By the 1980s, the US and Russia each had thousands of planes capable of delivering nuclear bombs as part of the escalating arms buildup during the Cold War.

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    The nuclear arms race between the United States and Soviet Union was a central aspect of the Cold War. Both nations massively increased their stockpiles of nuclear weapons throughout the 1950s and spent billions developing more powerful bombs like the hydrogen bomb. Initially only the US had nuclear weapons, but the arms race began in 1949 when the Soviet Union tested its first atomic bomb. By the 1980s, the US and Russia each had thousands of planes capable of delivering nuclear bombs as part of the escalating arms buildup during the Cold War.

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    Arms Race

    Monica Paniague, Lilia Enriquez, Marcos Aparicio, &


    Francisco Sainz

    Who was involved?


    The nuclear arms race was central to the Cold
    War.
    The United States and the Soviet Union were in
    an intense struggle for world domination.
    Also included were Great Britain, France, and the
    People's Republic of China.
    Both America & Russia massively built their
    stockpile of nuclear weapons.
    Many feared where the Cold War was going with
    the belief that the more nuclear weapons you
    had, the more powerful you were.

    What was going on?


    In 1952, the United States tested a new and more
    powerful weapon: the hydrogen bomb. The Soviet Union
    followed with its own version in 1953.
    Initially, only the United States possessed atomic
    weapons, but in 1949 the Soviet Union exploded an
    atomic bomb and the arms race began. Both countries
    then continued building more and bigger bombs.
    In the 1950's, The Arms Race became the focus of the
    Cold War.
    Both the USA & Russia spent billions and billions of

    Where did this take place?

    When

    Why- What were the underlying reasons


    this took place
    An arms race denotes a rapid increase in
    the quantity or quality of instruments of
    military power by rival states in
    peacetime.
    They had wanted to be able to defeat in
    the war against the others at this time.

    Outcomes
    The outcomes to the arms race shows that the
    weapons that they had when being at war at
    this time. However the arms race had finished
    with the treaty of the construction space
    station.
    The Nuclear build up lead within the nature of
    the political and the social systems being
    involved. Most states were produced with
    about eight corporations.
    By 1981, USA had 4,000 planes capable of
    delivering a nuclear bomb. Russia had 5000.

    Works Cited
    http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/modern-world-history-1918-to-1
    980/the-cold-war/the-nuclear-arms-race/
    http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/einstein/peace-and-war/nuclear-arm
    s-race/
    http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/arms-race

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