In three to five sentences, examine how the arms race during the Cold War increased tensions.

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In 1949 the USA and USSR were at an arms race for nuclear warfare weaponry because the USSR had tested its first atomic bomb and then the USA had to do the same and develop better weaponry or try to so that way if the USSR strikes the USA then they were able to strike back. Many in the USA believed that it was the end once the USSR made an atomic bomb and even prepared children to take gas masks to school because of how much the USA thought they would be eventually nuked by the USSR.