The first Soviet nuclear weapon was tested in 1949. They have never used one in combat.
Nakita Krushev
Roosevelt was a bit too open about the general concept of the atomic bomb. Stalin took in everything he heard and soon Russia or the Soviet Union had nuclear weapons also, making the US and the Soviet Union the two big world superpowers, with stockpiles of nuclear weapons that could destroy the Earth. I'm sure the Soviet Union believed at the time that since they were developing their own nuclear weapons, they weren't all that alarmed. To this day, after the Soviet Union crumbled, no one knows where some warheads have gone. It was easy for a terrorist to snatch a nuclear bomb or two from the unguarded Soviet stockpiles abandoned when the Soviet Union became no more.
The Federal Civil Defense Administration was a geovernment agency that was formed to protect the United States against the Soviet Union, its atomic attacks, and its Communist threats.
Around the end of 1944, due to Soviet spys. The US did not realize it had begun until the first Soviet test in 1949.
Submarines armed with nuclear ballistic missiles
Submarines armed with nuclear ballistic missiles
Submarines armed with nuclear ballistic missles.
Submarines armed with nuclear ballistic missiles
The goal was to discourage the Soviet Union from attacking free nations.
The U.S. countered Soviet threats during the Cold War by planning a defense to possible nuclear attacks. They also used economic attacks to neutralize the Soviet Union.
Scorched Earth Policy.
The goal was to discourage the Soviet Union from attacking free nations.
An end result of nuclear war.
Ray Perkins has written: 'The ABCs of the Soviet-American nuclear arms race' -- subject(s): Arms race, Military policy, Nuclear arms control, Nuclear weapons
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