(Fun Trivia) The cold war was a war of violent propaganda and a race of vast production of nuclear weapons. The United States was extra successful in producing nuclear weapons during the cold war because they had more military power, they also produced the main chemical element needed to make the radioactive nuclear weapons, and the United States had major government backing (money support) to produce theses nuclear weapons and delivery systems. Since the cold war was between these two countries, the question is: which country was more successful in production of nuclear weapons during the cold war? In this essay I will explain how the United States was more successful in the productions of nuclear weapons and how they managed to do this without actually going into a physical war.
The bomb needed to be tested after created so on July 16, 1945, New Mexico scientists witnessed the first atomic explosion in the history of the world. As the testing proceeded into the 1950s and 1960s, the scientists discovered the side effects of nuclear weapons and the fear it impacted on the American society. the bombs waste would be delivered by air and wind to the people of a 5-50 miles radius of the explosion. Nonetheless, this explosion would result in birth defects and harmful health conditions. propaganda began to publise this and increased the fears of americans.
After WW2 tensions between the United State and the Soviet Union tightened resulting in what is known as the Cold War. Although the seeds of this rivalry were planted nearly a quarter of a century before its actual commencement with the Revolution of 1918 in Russia, the tension was also driven through occasions such as the Yalta Conference and resulted in proxy wars throughout the world and a Second Red scare in America. This period was full of tension and fear that the United States and the USSR would destroy each other and the world with their arsenals of atomic weapons. During the Yalta conference the US, Russia, Britain and France agreed on the splitting of central Europe. This Split ultimately divided Europe into two spheres of influence.
Chapter 32 Summary The Cold War is defined as the ideological struggle between communism (Soviet Union “Warsaw Pact”) and Capitalism (United States “NATO”) for world influence. In 1948 the united states begin to view the Soviet Union as an adversary and threat. Prior to the Cold War Was World War II. World War II (1939-1945) the United States decided to develop the Marshall Plan to aid European recovery from the devastation of World War II. During The Cold War there began a development of nuclear weapons; It was a race for nuclear supremacy.
[They] offer the arms race as their main recipe for their preservation of peace!” Khrushchev made a speech in 1956 stating his beliefs that the US was making alliances not for fear of communism, but for a dominant position in the capitalist world. He also believes the arms race could easily lead to another war. As illustrated in Document 7, there was a steady buildup of ICBMS and long range bombers between 1966 and 1974. Document 7 states, “This nuclear buildup led to a “balance of terror” which some saw as a deterrent to war.” The fear that either country could the other to oblivion led to a balance of terror. This arms race led to a dangerous competition which could have easily led to a nuclear
In October 1939, just after the outbreak of World War II in Europe, the President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt received a letter from physicist Albert Einstein and his Hungarian colleague Leo Szilard, letting him know that a bomb of unprecedented power could be made by tapping the forces of nuclear fission. The two scientists, who had fled from Europe in order to escape Nazism, feared that Hitler-Germany was already working on the problem. They fear this because if the Germans were to be the first to develop the envisaged "atomic bomb," Hitler would have had a weapon in his hands that would make it possible for him to destroy his enemies and rule the world. Einstein and Szilard urged the government of the United States to join the race for the atomic bomb to end this nightmare. Roosevelt agreed to join and for the next four and half years a huge, secret effort was launched in cooperation with the United Kingdom.
President Dwight Eisenhower's military plan relied on nuclear stockpiles rather than land forces. He hoped the threat of nuclear destruction would restrain the Soviets. Increasing American fears was the development of the hydrogen bomb, many times more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
A Response to: The Day After Trinity HIS 262 Ellen Bardo Pennsylvania College of Technology February 13, 2010 The Day After Trinity is the documentation of the development of the atomic bomb, the original weapon of mass destruction, by the United States due to the belief that Hitler and Nazi Germany were pursuing the development of the atomic bomb. This concern, with regard to the possible consequences that would result from the development of the atom bomb by Nazi Germany, justified the entry of the United States into the race to develop the ultimate weapon. Robert Oppenheimer, prominent physicist, joined the research group dedicated to developing the atom bomb in the early 1940’s. The team consisted of Nobel Laureates
Beginning with how the Manhattan Project first came about, the book chronicles the discovery of fission, and how Pearl Harbor increased the push for a U.S. nuclear weapon. It follows the progression of the Manhattan Project from the dropping of the bombs through the fallout affecting the world. As Robert Oppenheimer said, “The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country” (Tracy 41). By making the atomic bomb her focus, Tracy was able to span a long period of time and still give a descriptive account of the event.
If the U.S were to dismantle its own, other countries would do the same. Countries such as Iran, Pakistan and North Korea, just to name a few, have them because they feel threatened by other nations that have such weapons. This is like a chain reaction, if Venezuela in South America were to develop nuclear weapons; other countries like Brazil would follow. How can the U.S. prohibit other countries such as Iran from developing nuclear weapons when they are spending billions of dollars in the maintaining and developing of them? In conclusion, weapons of mass destruction are the most powerful a country can have.