Arms Race of the Cold War

Boeing B-29 bomber nicknamed “Enola Gay,” and American crew assigned to dropping

Left: This political cartoon depicted how the United States and Russia were at loggerheads with each other. A nuclear war was a possible expectation, due to the droppings of the 2 atomic bombs on Japan


Another harmful repercussion that resulted from dropping the 2 atomic bombs on Japan, is that the United States had kick started the Cold War. After the United States displayed their authority  in the world of nuclear weaponry, the Russians had begun to present their power as well. After dropping the atomic bombs, the arms race had begun. Both Russia and the United States had entered in to a nuclear warfare. The impact, responsibility, and results of  nuclear weapons were far too powerful for the opposing countries. As the countries desired to be the strongest, the amount of nuclear weapons began to get increasingly dangerous.

 

Right: The political cartoon displayed above is a representation of how the world was brought to the brink of nuclear war as the 2 superpowers stared each other out during the Cuban Missile Crisis