Because there was no true defense against nuclear weapons.
Once both sides had nuclear weapons, the only way to "protect" themselves from the other side was to have so many more nuclear weapons that even if their enemies used all of their nuclear weapons, there would still be nuclear weapons to shoot back with. That way, nobody would use nuclear weapons, because they could never actually "win" that way. This thought process was referred to as Mutually Assured Destruction, or MAD.
The nuclear arms race was the core of the cold war.
The Space Race And The Arms Race
arms race, space race, Nixon, Truman, Vietnam war, Korean war
Nuclear arms race was where Cold War was going with the belief that the more nuclear weapons you had, the more powerful you were
The United States and the Soviet Union developed the ability to completely destroy each other.
Military technology; the arms race.
The nuclear arms race was the core of the cold war.
The Arms Race ended with the end of the cold war and the breakup of the USSR. The nuclear arms race came about during the Cold War.
Cold War=Arms Race (new weapons)
Cold war.
The Space Race And The Arms Race
The cold war was not a war at all; it was a military stand-off, an arms race.
arms race, space race, Nixon, Truman, Vietnam war, Korean war
Nuclear weapons arms race
Nuclear arms race was where Cold War was going with the belief that the more nuclear weapons you had, the more powerful you were
The United States and the Soviet Union developed the ability to completely destroy each other.
Arms race.& USA chase #communistes#!(hoover)