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There are currently no nuclear weapons big enough that just one could destroy the US. It is possible that enough of them could pretty much destroy our way of life for decades to come.
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Why was there global competition between the us and the soviet union?
The nuclear bomb AKA the cold war. The cold war was an arms race against the USSR and the US to see who could get the most destructive and best nuclear weapon of all time.
Why were the Rosenbergs executed?
they were thought to have given nuclear bomb information to the soviets
Why did the US have bomb shelters in 1949?
The Cold War and nuclear arms races in the late forties through the eighties was the impetus of Americans building bomb shelters. They were convinced Russia would bomb America and they could have if Kennedy had not stopped Fidel Castro and the Russians from sending over their nuclear missiles located ninety miles from the US. Most of the bomb shelters were a joke. They never could have protected the people from the radiation in the air or from the bomb explosion.
When the Soviet Union exploded an atomic bomb the us response was?
When the Soviet Union exploded an atomic bomb, the US response was to increase its own arsenal and its own testing of nuclear weapons.
What was klaus fuchs motivation for working on the atomic bomb for the US?
He was a atomic bomb spy who supplied the Russians with detail plans for construction of nuclear weapons.
Does the us have a bomb that could destroy all of north Korea?
The U.S. has thousands of nuclear weapons. It could probably turn the entire world, to say nothing of North Korea, into a nuclear wasteland if it felt like it.
Could one nuclear missile shot at the US destroy the world?
Absolutely not.
How was a nuclear bomb used as a threat?
In the same way that any weapon would be used as a threat- If you do this, I will do that. For many years, the US and the Soviet Union had a strategy known as MAD- Mutually Assured Destruction- If we are attacked with nuclear weapons, we will respond with Nuclear Weapons. You have enough to destroy us, but we would also destroy you.
Can the UK fire a nuclear bomb without US permission?
They wouldn't dare, but could they? Yes.
Who can made first nuclear bomb?
US
When was last US nuclear bomb test?
1945
Why did the US dropped a nuclear bomb?
To end WWII.
Which country had the mark 53 nuclear bomb?
US
When did the US build their first nuclear bomb?
1945
What nation was the first to develop a nuclear bomb?
US
Did the nuclear bomb affect only the US?
no it did ont
Will US use nuclear bomb against Iran?
Doubtful.
