The United States is more powerful by far. Many reasons for that.
Russia has finally announced they are going to modernized there military which is very outdated. There plan is to spend 650Billion dollars in the next 10years while the United States military Budget for 1year is about 650Billion dollars.
The United States economy is far bigger to. US GDP is 14Trillion dollars while Russia only has a GDP of 1Trillion.
The United States has military bases all around the world. The US Navy is the biggest it the world, it takes the next 14 biggest Navy's to equal it.
Russia is very far behind the US. After there collapse of communism they stooped even trying to keep up with the United States militarily.
Because Britain was allied with much more powerful countries: the USSR and USA.
US: 1945. USSR: 1949
Both the US & USSR begin with letters US. Both the US & USSR used a star on all of their war machines (Ships, Tanks, Aircraft, Trucks, Artillery, etc.). Both the US & USSR extended from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean. Both the US & USSR had sub-states within it. Both the US & USSR had minority populations of people & cultures. Both the US & USSR had fairly matched technologies. Both the US & USSR were spawned from revolutions (1776) & (1917) respectively. Both the US & USSR had frontier expansions: The US went West; the USSR went East.
It was in the middle of the Cold War. This is describing the "race" between Russia (USSR) and the United States and both of their atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs. Arms Race = A race between to nations to produce the most weapons and the most powerful weapons. Ex) The cold war.. the USSR and the USA. And im guessing the US goal was to get more weapons than the USSR?
the USSR
Because the USSR was a huge and powerful country led by an unpredictable maniac.
The US and the USSR were the most powerful nations on earth.
Yes, among other things the US added the words "One Nation under God" to the pledge of allegiance because of the cold war to distinguish the "christian" US from the "atheist" USSR. Also certain politicians considered it the "divine duty" of the US to have ever more powerful nuclear bombs and to use them to destroy the USSR before the USSR could match the nuclear capabilities of the US.
Both countries are powerful, but the United States is orders of magnitude more powerful.
The USSR had developed a atomic bomb as well, so the US feared that they would be outnumbered in a nuclear war with the USSR
The Cold War was not about "gaining power". It was about maintaining the power the USSR and the US already had and to keep the communists from spreading any more of the communism.
USSR
Because Britain was allied with much more powerful countries: the USSR and USA.
It is the U.S.A . that is more powerful then Russia.
US: 1945. USSR: 1949
the USA and the USSR
Their goal was to have the most powerful weapons in the world, but US intervened and the war became known as the Cold war