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Which country has the most nuclear weapons America or Russia?
Russia
Which country has the most nuclear weapons?
The United States currently owns 9,600 nuclear weapons, while Russia currently owns 16,800. But Russia actually always had more nuclear weapons than the United States. Russia was lacking in nuclear warheads from beginning of time to 1975. For various reasons, the USSR (and now Russia) have pretty much always had more ICBM weapons than the US, while the US maintained a larger stockpile of gravity bombs, SLBMs, and cruise missiles. Currently, as nuclear-tipped cruise missiles were forbidden under the START I treaty, only bombs, ICBMs, and SLBMs are in existence, with the number of 'usable' weapons varying over time.
What American president almost sent nuclear missiles to Russia during the Cold War?
The closest we came to a nuclear confrontation with Russia that I know of, was under John F. Kennedy during the Cuban Blockade in 1962.
Why was the cold war a war of ideas?
Because if the U.S fought Russia with nuclear missiles (which they both had) it would destroy the world.
Why couldn't the US run a blockade in response to Russia sending nuclear missiles to Cuba?
A blockade was considered an act of war.
