What caused the arms race between the the u. s and the ussr

John Swift examines a vital element of the Cold War and assesses the motives of the Superpowers. Nuclear weapon test, 1956The destruction of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by American atomic weapons in August 1945 began anarms race between the United States and the Soviet Union

The want to be the top power in the world with nuclear weapons