Nuclear arms race

The Nuclear arms race was a Competition between the United States, the Soviet Union and their allies to prove their greater Power in nuclear warfare. It was done during the Cold War.

Nuclear Arms Race Media

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  United States and Soviet Union/Russia nuclear weapon stockpiles

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  More than 100 US-built missiles having the capability to strike Moscow with nuclear warheads were deployed in Italy and Turkey in 1961.

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  U.S. President Richard Nixon with Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, 1973

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  Protest in Bonn, West Germany against the nuclear arms race between the U.S./NATO and the Soviet Union, 1981

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  Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev and U.S. President Reagan signing the INF Treaty, 1987

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  Dmitry Medvedev with Barack Obama after signing the New START treaty in Prague, 2010

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  Large stockpile with global range (dark blue), smaller stockpile with global range (medium blue), small stockpile with regional range (light blue)

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  UN vote on adoption of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons on July 7, 2017     Yes      No     Did not vote