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a global competition, known as the cold war existed between the democratic united states and its allies and the communist soviet union and its supporters. By 1948, both sides POSSESSED nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons cause mass desctruction by using atomic reactions to release gigantic amounts of power. The cold war was dangerous even though armies from rival never assembled fought each other.

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