Arms Race
The arms race began with the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan. The Soviets were getting more advanced. It was the all about the bigger and better technology that was advancing with weapons. The Soviet media was telling the people that United States had nothing compared to them. The code name for the creation of the world’d first atomic bomb was called The Manhattan Project. The two Japanese cities that the United States dropped the atomic bombs on was Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
On August 29, 1949, the Soviet Union was the first to tests its atomic bomb, also know as the beginning of the nuclear arms race. The goal of both the United States and Soviet Union was to just have the better technology be more advanced than the other one. The United States developed the first hydrogen bomb in 1952. This test gave the United States an advantage for a short while in the arms race with the Soviet Union. The hydrogen bombs used the processes of nuclear fusion to create radiation explosives. Compared to the atomic bomb uses a nuclear chain reaction which releases big amounts of energy explosives.
ICBM stands for an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile it is a long range dangerous device that has the power to cross oceans and continents. They are equipped with nuclear warheads and is very destructive. This was available to the major world powers and the UN Secretary Council. The ICBM was the last thing to resort to when all other plans have failed. Most of the nations have monitoring systems that can detect the ICBM. The Soviet Union was the first to test it and it during the Cold War.
The Atlas missile the United States developed in 1957 was that nations first operational intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). The term “Minutemen” refers to the quick reaction time the missile can be launched. Operated at the command of the Air Force Combat. Is an ICBM and is capable of carrying many nuclear warheads. The United states has 5,113 nuclear bombs today. The Soviet Union has 4,650 nuclear warheads currently today.