Class Work - 4.13.15

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MAD: Mutual Assured Destruction
MAD was developed during the Cold War because of the fact that the U.S. and the USSR built a lot of war heads, they built war heads that could count as more than 1 million of the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima, they could destroy the whole world multiple times, and that why it is called assured destruction.
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The arms gap was really important because it lead to fear, the American people thought that the Soviet Union had way more nuclear missiles and when Kennedy became president he expanded the making of weapons, the world was very close to a nuclear war when the Cuban missile crises happened, everyone thought that a nuclear war was going to happen.
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No. They never used nuclear weapons against each other, because they know that if they do use nuclear weapons against each other the both sides are going to get destroyed and maybe the world would get destroyed too, there would be no winners.
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It kind of slowed down the making of bombs because both sides know that they could destroy there opponent over and over again.
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It slowed down the making of nuclear and other kinds of bombs, it made both sides know that they are very powerful, and it scared everyone.