arms race

• usa dropping of atomic bomb

  1945
• USA dropped the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• ussrs first succes atomic bomb


  1949
• arms race

  • period of intense competition between us and ussr to develop stock piles of weapons
  • escalate tensions, proliferation (growth) of nuclear weapons
  • dangerous and costly build of atoms
• SDI


  1983
• SDI


  Strategic Defense Initiative