By Trip Bennewitz

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Nuclear Arms Race
By Trip Bennewitz
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Nuclear Arms in the Cold War

• The Nuclear Arms Race illustrates the great power
  strategic considerations
• US Russia believed more nuclear weapons
  more powerful
• Both nations had large stockpile of nuclear
  weapons
• created great tension between Truman and Stalin
• US made A-Bomb to defeat Germany
• Germany was defeated by the time the A-Bomb was
  finished

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Key Players

• Harry Truman- President of the United States
• Joseph Stalin- Dictator of the USSR

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The Atomic Bomb

• a.k.a. the A-Bomb
• What is it? - creates extremely large explosion
  from the splitting of an atomic nuclei
• tested in New Mexico 1945 by US
• dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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Timeline
45- WWII ends
47- Atomic Energy Commission created.
52- First H-Bomb explosion
43- Japan has worst rice crop in 50 years
55-79- Invention of Plutonium Bomb, more test
of Atom and H-bombs
50- Truman announces creation of H-Bomb
Start of Korean War
45- US drops bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
53- End of Korean War
62- Cuban Missile Crisis
49- Soviet Union A-Bomb test successful
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Nobody was backing down, no matter the amount of
damage.
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Everybody Wants an A-Bomb, even if they have to
give up their pants!
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The Atomic Bomb cont.

• other nations with A-Bombs USSR('49), GB('52),
  France('60), and China('64)
• detonation the bringing together of two
  subcritical fissional material
• fission splitting
• equivalent to 15k tons of TNT
• weighed 5 tons

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The Bombing of Hiroshima

• August 6, 1945
• Deaths 80k immediately, thousands more died in
  following weaks from wounds and radiation
  poisoning
• covered 4 square miles

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The A-Bomb
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Mutual Assured Destruction

• if one nation attacks, then the nation retaliated
• there were no winners
• by '81 US 8k ICBMs, 4k planes capable of
  delivering a-bomb USSR 7k ICBMs, 5k planes
• by '86 40k nuclear bombs in the world, equal to 1
  million Hiroshima bombs
• US spent 367 billion by '86

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