Question

5 quick facts about the nuclear arms race

Answer 1

1.the first nuclear weapon was used by US.

2. only the United States possessed atomic weapons, but in 1949 the Soviet Union exploded an atomic bomb and the arms race began.

3. In 1952, the United States tested a new and more powerful weapon: the hydrogen bomb.

4.The nuclear arms race was an arms race competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies during the Cold War.

5.The successful test of the bomb led to its use on two Japanese cities in August 1945, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.