What tensions were there between the US and USSR during the cold war?

Answer 1

As a former Cold War warrior I can only speak to what I saw during the years I was in the army and my study of the human condition of Soviet era Russians. The main tensions would have been; influence on the world stage, quantitative military supremacy and a battle for Third World ideology. Now termed the developing world the US and the USSR were constantly fighting proxy wars in Cuba, Indochina, eastern Europe, Afghanistan and the open sea. This was perpetrated by an ever expanding military and technological advance by either country. There were X amount of tanks and X amount of intercontinental balistic missiles as deterrents to a shooting war between the countries. Each embarrassing incident was a game of chess from Francis Gary Powers, the Cuban Missile Crisis, failed nuclear disarmament talks to the collapse of the Soviet state. Each month, year and decades long score card were used by the various government agencies to exert power over non-super power countries. The symbols of early Soviet dominance in the space race, acquisition of Nuclear missiles, to military build ups and a utopian proletariat that foretold an equal standing finally fell under the weight of mismanagement, a decades long struggling economy and crumbling satellite state governments. The lifestyles of westerners and the burgeoning economies of Europe and the US finally outspent the Soviet Union. When you must build walls and man those walls to insure people don't leave it is only a matter of time before liberty prevails. What we didn't know then and what we do know now is, the quantitative military components of the Soviets were not nearly what we thought them to be. It is uncertain whether the tanks and missiles were maintained enough to even fight. It was a battle of cultures and vastly different philosophies of governance. Freedom won out at the cost of hundreds of billions of dollars and tens of thousands in deaths.

basically US nd the USSR were always in a race to see who had the most power, they both kept on creating bigger and bigger nuclear bombs until USSR made the T-zar Bomba..if US were to make a bigger bomb than the T-zar Bomba and if that bomb were ever to explode it would literally destroy the whole world.

After that USA decided to own the moon...they think they're winning the race now :P