A New History After The War

Since the invention of nuclear weapons, they have presented the world with a significant danger, one that was shown in reality during the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. However, nuclear weapons have not only served in combat, but they have also played a role in keeping the world peaceful by the concept of deterrence. The usage of nuclear weapons would lead to mutual destruction and during the Cold War, nuclear weapons were necessary to maintain international security, as a means of deterrence. However, by the end of the Cold War, reliance on nuclear weapons for maintaining peace became increasingly difficult and less effective (Shultz, et. al, 2007). The development of technology has also provided increasing opportunities for states

The Cold War was a competition. The US and the Soviet Union raced to become the world’s number one superpower, building up their militaries, improving their arsenals, and developing more advanced weapons. However, weapons in the war were not limited to only nuclear warheads. The weapons used in the Cold War were nuclear warheads, and hope and terror caused by propaganda.

“The Evil Empire” — that is what, at the height of the arms race, United States President Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union (Rudolph 1). Unsurprisingly, the Soviet Union was similarly upset at the United States. This anger is what fueled the arms race. During the Cold War, due to fears of nuclear attack, the US and Soviet Union designed and deployed thousands of nuclear warheads, each hoping to deter the other from nuclear launch with threat of counter attack (O’Neal 1). This massive arms buildup, however, had many negative effects on the US. To recognize the impact that the arms race continues to have on today, it is crucial to understand not only its causes, but also its immediate impacts on the US economy, society, foreign

The forty-five years from the dropping of the atom bombs to the end of the Soviet Union, can be seen as the era of the new conflict between two major states: United States of America (USA) and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). According to Hobsbawm, ‘cold war’ was the constant confrontation of the two super powers which emerged from the Second World War. At that time the entire generation was under constant fear of global nuclear battles. It was widely believed that it could break out at any moment. (Hobsbawm, 1994) The consequences of the ‘power vacuum’ in central Europe, created by the defeat of Germany, gave rise to these two super powers (Dunbabin, 1994). The world was divided into

Starting in the 1949 with the explosion of an atomic bomb(RDS-1) in Russia and ending with the dissolvement of the Soviet Union, the nuclear arms race was an extremely tense few decades that forever changed the United States in many ways. The Arms Race is exactly what it sounds like; a race to amass more advance weapons. During these four decades, the Nuclear Arms Race affected Americans socially through instilling a variety of emotions ranging from fear, to awe of the power of the nuclear weapons, economically through enlarging governmental role within the economy and mostly importantly, the political impacts were more involvement required by the U.S government in world affairs and as a force against Russia.

After the Second World War, the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as superpowers and subsequently a period of tension and hostility arose, known as the Cold War. During this time, a new possibility of complete nuclear destruction that would claim the lives of many emerged, therefore “the easing or relaxing of tensions” on both sides was needed, this period would be known as detente. Both countries had been guaranteed mutually assured destruction as they had both managed to stay ahead in the development of nuclear arsenals. By the late 1960s the Soviets had surpassed the United States in intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) by 1,300 to 1,054. Although the U.S was still

Right after the World War II, both nations, the United States and the Soviet Union spent an astronomical amount of money to improve and expand their nuclear arsenal. During the Cold War period not only did the U.S. and USSR was developing nuclear weapons, but also countries around the world were engaged in warhead production at the same scale as the two superpowers of the time. Simultaneously, the Space War took place between the two super powers of the time (the United States and the Soviet Union) thus proving that both events, the space race and the nuclear weapons proliferation, are interrelated and pivotal during the Cold War.

The Cold War was tense period for the world. The superpowers of the world, Russia and the United States were both capable of causing world destruction through nuclear weapons. The Americans were tired and just wanted to the tensions to ease. USSR and The United States competed over various things to show superiority, including the space race and especially the massive arms buildup. President John F. Kennedy and Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev both had promises that they had made to the nation. Khrushchev was close to losing popularity in Russia, the Russians believed that he was not doing enough for the country as a leader. Kennedy’s statements bragging about “U.S. nuclear superiority” (Donaldson 118), made Khrushchev and the Soviet look bad.

It also engaged in proxy wars in Vietnam, Angola and the Middle East. However despite the tension both sides agreed on a policy of détente. “The policy of détente had primarily meant détente in Europe. Détente also contributed to regulating the arms race through certain limitation agreements” G.Lundestad (2005:87).

We all have turning points in our life that affect everything else and end up shifting things in a different way. Many different events happened during the World War 2, and they changed and made big impacts that ended up changing how things ended up. The two major events that occurred during WW2, were the two battles which were the battle of Stalingrad and the battle of Midway.

A large part of the Cold War was the costly nuclear arms race. At the beginning of the Cold War the US was the only nation known

Let me tell you a little about what’s been going on since the war's been going on. When he first left I just stayed in the house and cooked and did things I would normally do. Then a couple weeks after he was gone, I got a job. More employment opportunities opened for women. I got a job where he used to work. At a factory where we lived. Women became the main population of the factories, and women's movement progressed. The only bad thing about working was that I got lower pays then my husband. Soon African-Americans started showing up. They also got recruited a bunch of jobs. Finally the war ended. It was November 11th, 1918 at 11:00 am. I woke up early for work wondering if my husband is coming back from the war. It’s been 2 long years

The most important events that brought about the end of the Cold War were the economic pressures applied to the USSR by the arms race with the United States under the Reagan Administration, and the political pressure applied to the USSR by its satellite countries discontent with Soviet Communism. From the start of the Cold War in 1947, the US and the USSR raced to stockpile nuclear weapons under the military policy known as Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD). MAD described a conflict in which both parties could destroy each other as soon as one launched a nuclear attack. Reagan used this policy and the superior manufacturing ability of the US to weaken the USSR’s economy, which could not sustain the financial stress of constantly producing

Quickly following the end of World War ll, the Soviet Union and the United States were in a battle to become the more technologically advanced than each other. These countries were at the forefront of the Atomic Age, creating new and improved weapons systems for bigger, and better bombs. This deadly arms race earned the title of a “Cold War.”

Many individuals would remember the Cold War (1945-1991) to be “a state of political hostility between countries, characterized by threats and propaganda”. An inevitable war in which questioned the extent of power politics and the survival of humankind. Both the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic and the United States committed to a war which disregarded direct military action and pursued economic and political actions in order to achieve the objective. The Arms Race, a significant event in this period is acknowledged to have had a profound contribution to the tension developed throughout the Cold War. However it cannot be concluded that the Arms Race was the only source of maintaining Cold War Tensions, as it is evident that there are other factors which have contributed to this crisis. Circumstances in relation to the Arms Race such as the Berlin Blockade, Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis and the ideologies of political personnel’s have all played a role in maintaining tension.