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We should also ask how the Cold War shaped the development of atomic energy. Was the nuclear-arms race a product of Cold War tension rather than its cause? The atomic bomb and the origins of the Cold War. The nuclear age began before the Cold War. During World War II, three countries decided to build the atomic bomb: Britain, the United States ...
- David Holloway
- 2010
1949 – 2021. U.S.-Russia Nuclear Arms Control. The nuclear arms race was perhaps the most alarming feature of the Cold War competition between the United States and Soviet Union. Over the ...
May 22, 2020 · The recently created Atomic Energy Commission had custody of the weapons and Truman wanted them kept under civilian control. The armed services sought direct control of the weapons and as Cold War tensions heightened during the Soviet blockade of West Berlin, senior defense officials urged Truman to transfer custody from the AEC.
On August 20, 1945, two weeks to the day after Hiroshima, Stalin signed a decree setting up a Special Committee on the Atomic Bomb, under the chairmanship of Lavrentii P. Beriia. The Soviet project was now a crash program. “Nuclear Weapons and the Escalation of the Cold War, 1945-1962,” in Odd Arne Westad and Melvin Leffler, eds., The ...
Summary. Spanning countries across the globe, the antinuclear movement was the combined effort of millions of people to challenge the superpowers’ reliance on nuclear weapons during the Cold War. Encompassing an array of tactics, from radical dissent to public protest to opposition within the government, this movement succeeded in ...
Nuclear Weapons and Mutually Assured Destruction. Another reason the Cold War stayed cold: the deterrence between the alliances was supercharged by a powerful new technology: nuclear weapons. The United States developed the first nuclear bombs at the end of World War II, and within a few years, the Soviet Union produced its own. Both countries ...
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The VENONA Intercepts, 1946-1980. The Cold War, 1945-1990. Nuclear Proliferation, 1949-present. The postwar organization of atomic energy took place against the backdrop of growing tension with the Soviet Union. Relations between the United States and the Soviet Union had been strained ever since the revolution of 1917 had first brought ...
