1949
a conventional and nuclear military buildup that the Soviets could not afford
all together over the years, somewhere around 100,000. however most of these were recycled to make improved weapons. at the peak of the cold war the soviet stockpile contained over 30,000 nuclear weapons, about 10,000 of these were high yield strategic weapons.
Announced US Policy, diected at the Soviet Union, that declared that the US could or would respond with the maximum number of nuclear weapons, if the United States (or key allies) was attacked with one or more nuclear weapons from the Soviet Union or any of its allies. It was designed to deter the Soviets from the use of nuclear weapons.
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Hardly. Great Britain and Canada were the only two countries with which the US shared the secret of nuclear weapons. Soviet spies stole the knowledge from the US to create their own nuclear arsenal in 1948. Other WMDs, chemical and germ weapons, were developed independently.
The US and the Societs had two discussions called the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, SALT I and SALT II. START I and II, Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, limited the production of nuclear weapons.
Those that are nuclear, such as the nuclear bombs.
Zambia does not have nuclear weapons.
In nuclear weapons depots.
The European countries that were successful in resisting the Soviets joined NATO. NATO was successful because it had more nuclear weapons than the Soviets had, as well as having a system of government that was economically superior to communism.
Nuclear weapons are weapons which are fueled by nuclear energy. Examples of weapons that can be fueled by nuclear energy are missile warheads and bombs.
The cold war was about nuclear weapons; without nukes, there would have been no cold war. Only the US had nukes prior to 1949; the US was the most powerful nation on earth...in 1949 the Soviets (Russians) tested their first nuke. They had the "bomb" now. The power had shifted.