After the event of the Cold War, many theories were driven as of how the Cold War started. There were theories such as Superpowers, Intra-State, Class Conflict, and so much more. One of the main theories was called the Nuclear Arms Race Theory. The Nuclear Arms Race Theory was between the United States and the Soviet Union in a race against technology to the superiority of nuclear weapons. Even the superpowers of the Cold War were trying to stop the arms race in order to keep humanity alive. The United and the Soviet Union kept continuing to fight until 1991 when it stated in 1947. Most people around that time thought that the US and the USSR were fighting to see who made the fastest improvement, but that was the just the being. The both countries started to take in the production of bombs. The US actually started the it when the Manhattan Project was announced to make the atomic bomb to make the Japanese surrender during World War II. Stalin was actually not aware of this project until the Potsdam Conference in 1945 or so Truman thought. Stalin was aware about the project before even hearing it from that conference because …show more content…
The USSR had been placing nuclear missiles in Communist Cuba. Once the US had discovered about their missiles, they had threatened the USSR with their DEFCON 2. Then there was a proposition where Khrushchev said if the US were to dismiss their missile in Turkey, they’ll dismiss their missile in Cuba. In October 28 of 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis ended. Then there was a radio broadcast from Khrushchev saying that the bombs in Cuba were going to be dismissed. The two countries realized that building all these bombs for political reasons was too dangerous and risky. “After the Cuban Missile Crisis, the US and USSR still superimposed their competition on local conflicts in other parts of the