Why Did the Cold War Didn't Turn Into a Hot War

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Why did the Cold War never develop into a hot war? The Cold War was a long draw out conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States. The struggle between the two powers had the many parts of the world in disarray. The Cold War occurred for more than 40 years, from the period of 1945 to 1989, the USSR was in conflict with the West, except that conflict never came to open warfare (‘hot war’). This was due to the fact that there weren’t any fighter planes flying over countries dropping bombs, no tanks no ground troops, no actual deployment of missile and there was no direct armed conflict between the two continental giants. However there were a stockpile of nuclear weapons, money was being spent like an actually War was being fought, propaganda, and there were two superpower enemies but no actually fighting occurred. The Cold War was a big arms race that was started after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR or modern day Russia). This war caused a bipolar system in the world where there were two dominant powers fighting to become the dominant power. A World War would have resulted in the use of nuclear weapons, which had the capability of completely wiping out all humanity. Soviet and American leaders were aware and they knew what was at risk. The destructive capability of a nuclear warfare was the fundamental reason as to why the Cold War never resulted into a Hot War. Although the Soviet Union and the United States never fought each other directly, neither country ever sought a nuclear war. There was never a direct military engagement between the US and the Soviet Union, but there was half a century of military buildup as well as political battles for support around the world, including significant involvement of allied and satellite nations in proxy wars. Although the US and the Soviet Union had been allied against Nazi
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