Cold War Nuclear War
During the cold war crisis had a special connotation because each moment of political conflict raised the possibility of nuclear war between the united.
Cold war nuclear war. The united states and united kingdom are taken by surprisesoviet nuclear science was further advanced than either nation knew. How nato planned to defeat the soviets on the battlefield during the cold war. The ussr detonates rds 1 first lightning at a test site in northeast kazakhstan. In the early post war years western planners hoped that nuclear weapons would keep the soviets at bay.
The cold war nuclear weapons race was primarily a contest between the united states and the soviet union though other countries developed nuclear weapons during this time. In the late 1970s and 1980s the jimmy carter and ronald reagan administrations produced a cold blooded strategy based on decapitating the soviet leadership and waging a protracted nuclear war. The united states and the soviet union began developing intercontinental ballistic missiles and in 1962 the soviets began secretly installing missiles in cuba that could be used to launch nuclear attacks on us. After world war ii the struggle for world power erupted and the united states and the soviet union took the lead.
On october 27 1962 at the height of the cuban missile crisis the. A nuclear war almost happened many times. Another intense stage of the cold war was in 195862. The nuclear arms race was an arms race competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the united states the soviet union and their respective allies during the cold war.
The titan ii intercontinental ballistic missile icbm carried a 9 mt w53 warhead one of the most powerful nuclear weapons fielded by the united states during the cold war. During this very period in addition to the american and soviet nuclear stockpiles other countries developed nuclear weapons though none engaged in warhead production on nearly the same scale as the two superpowers. Soviet unions first nuclear test. A replica of an early atom bomb.