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

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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