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I'm sure you're reffering to the cold war. Nuclear war was avoided becasue both sides have nuclear weapons. Knowing if one side uses the other side will fire back neither side decided to use. In theory nuclear weapons may have saved more lives than have been killed. If it weren't for nuclear weapons we most likely would have seen bloodshed between the West and the USSR during the cold war.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 14y agoThe world still does.
A full scale nuclear war, where combatants use the majority (if not all) of their weapons and the majority of those weapons strike their targets, would likely kill from a third to half of the population of the combatant nations instantly. The resulting radioactive fallout, along with the destruction/absence of clean water, medical aid, sanitation, fresh food and other human needs would cause conditions ripe for virulent, deadly disease, with further deaths in the millions over the months after the 'war'.
Radiation, famine, and disease would also kill millions in non-combatant countries. The destruction of nuclear war does not know borders.
It is possible that a full scale nuclear war would end human life, not just as we know it but as a species.
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∙ 14y agoThey didn't want to blow everything up?
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Fear of this kind of war reached hysteria in the 1950s?
nuclear warfare
What was the greatest fear regarding Soviet American relations?
An end result of nuclear war.
Were tanks used in world war 3?
It is thought that World War III will be a nuclear war.
Is World War 3 scary?
Yes, World war 3 is a really scary nuclear war.
What was a soldiers greatest fear in world war 1?
Death and injury/illness. Just like any war.
Why did everyone want the nuclear bomb after World War 2?
fear
Why did the cold war lead to a new western world?
now do you mean after the cold war or during. if during it was from all the fear of nuclear attack
Use nuclear in a sentence?
It was a nuclear bomb. Everyone was afraid of a nuclear bomb. The nuclear power plant malfunctioned. The Cold War was about fear of nuclear attack.
Fear of this kind of war reached hysteria in the 1950s?
nuclear warfare
What did Americans fear during the 1950's and what did government do about it?
a nuclear war
Examine the nature and scope of the cold war?
The cold war was a period of time when the world operated under an aura of fear and was basically the USSR against the western world, such as the US and the UK. All of the nations involved felt that we were constantly poised on the brink of nuclear war, and people lived in fear that the world would be wiped out at the push of a button.
How did nuclear weapons affect world war 2?
Two nuclear weapons ended World War 2.
What development during World War 2 do you think still was the greatest impact on the world today?
the creation of the nuclear weapons because that made everyone fear us(u.s) hence the cold war and the race for the creation of more nuclear weapons and it affects us 2 this day because everyone is always fearing a nuclear holocaust
What event in the 1960s brought the world into nuclear war?
A nuclear war never happened. You may be thinking of the Cuban Missile Crisis when the world came very close to nuclear war.
What term does the cold war best describe?
Fear of Nuclear War Fight against Communism / Spread of Communism
What was the greatest fear regarding Soviet American relations?
An end result of nuclear war.
What was an effect of dropping bombs on japan?
Lots of people died. Japan surrendered to the Allied forces shortly thereafter. The world entered the nuclear age, and the fear of nuclear war became widespread. And many other things.
