Long Term
It was the name given to a type of battleship built in the arms race leading up to WW1, so called because it "dreaded naught" - or feared nothing.
The nuclear arms race was the core of the cold war.
The president during the arms race was Harry S. Truman - EMS Student
The thinking is if the race to gather destructive weapons was deterred then the arms race would be secondary and nations would stop.
Long Term
Arms Race
the arms race started because US wanted to get the most powerful bomb.
1904
The very beginning of the 20th century, just before WW1. ___ It began in 1897 after the failure of negotiations aimed at creating an Anglo-German alliance, and it ended when the Germans scuttled their fleet in Scapa Flow in 1919.
What! There is a race of arms!
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the arms race started because US wanted to get the most powerful bomb.
It was the name given to a type of battleship built in the arms race leading up to WW1, so called because it "dreaded naught" - or feared nothing.
Before the end of WW2 when Stalin decided he needed the bomb too.
The Cuban missile crisis in the early 1960's.
The nuclear arms race began after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan in August of 1945. This would effectively begin the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.