Arms Race
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Arms Race. By: Dre’ Anderson and Tanner Sinclair. Background. In 1946, after WWII, the Atomic Energy Act was passed to prevent nuclear weapons, but countries still made these weapons. Countries raced to advanced in nuclear weapons and other military weapons to gain world power. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Arms Race
By: Dre’ Anderson and Tanner Sinclair
Background• In 1946, after WWII, the Atomic Energy Act
was passed to prevent nuclear weapons, but countries still made these weapons.
• Countries raced to advanced in nuclear weapons and other military weapons to gain world power.
• Arms race was between democratic NATO countries and communist Warsaw Pact countries. Specifically U.S. and the Soviet Union.
http://www.etec.energy.gov/Regulation/Atomic-Energy-Act.html
Hydrogen Bombs • Americans wanted to prevent war by having the
best bombs.
• President Truman ordered scientist to develop a hydrogen bomb…nicknamed MIKE!
• MIKE was tested on a coral island in the South Pacific in 1952.
• The Soviet Union saw U.S. heavy spending for nuclear weapons and began to research on their own.
• The Soviet Union built an hydrogen bomb and tested it in Siberia.
Hydrogen Bomb Cont.• Eisenhower worked for peace with the Soviet
Union, although the arms research continued.
• March 1954 the U.S. set off the biggest H-bomb it ever tested nicknamed BRAVO!
• BRAVO had radioactive ash fall on 23 Japanese fishermen. They wre all sick when they got to Japan and one died a few months later.
The text book
Deterrence
• Measures taken by a state or an alliance of states to prevent hostile action by another state.
• The U.S. and Soviet Union came up with the policy of deterrence, however continued to build their armed forces.
• This built a vast, interwoven military establishment and arms industry from the invented stockpile of weapons.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/deterrence
S.A.L.T.
• Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty extended from November 1969 to May 1972.
• The U.S. and Soviet Union placed limits and restraints on their production of nuclear weapons.
• They also put limits and restraints on central defensive weapons that would spur other countries’ competition.
http://www.armscontrol.org/documents/salt
