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Kris Brown

Published on Nov 30, 2015

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ARMS RACE

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Cold War
The Cold War is the name given to the relationship that developed primarily between the USA and the USSR after World War Two. The Cold War was to dominate international affairs for decades and many major crises occurred - the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, Hungary and the Berlin Wall being just some. For many, the growth in weapons of mass destruction was the most worrying issue.

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Massive Retaliation
Threaten to use nuclear weapons if a Communist state tried to seize territory by force.

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Who's Policy ?
Eisenhower

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This new policy enabled Eisenhower to cut military spending from $50 billion to $34 billion. He did this by cutting back the army, which required a lot of money to maintain, at the same time, he increased American nuclear arsenal from about 1,000 bombs in 1953 to about 18,000 bombs in 1961

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The Hydrogen Bomb
weapon deriving a large portion of its energy from the nuclear fusion of hydrogen isotopes. In an atomic bomb, uranium or plutonium is split into lighter elements that together weigh less than the original atoms, the remainder of the mass appearing as energy. Unlike this fission bomb, the hydrogen bomb

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