Question

Which of the following were results of the arms race between the Soviet Union and the United States?

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

The United States decided to use nuclear weapons to end World War II, which led to the Soviet Union taking a desperate effort to acquire those weapons, leading to long running nuclear arms race between the two superpowers. As an effect of the arms race between the Soviet Union and the United States, during the period of the war, several other countries also engaged themselves in nuclear weapon production. Generation of nuclear weapons resulted in huge scale economic drainage.